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A review by lydialovestoread
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments by Hadley Vlahos
5.0
This is the book I hope to write, but from an ICU perspective with more personal growth. It was brilliant.
Hadley is a hospice nurse in Florida who tells the stories of twelve of her patients with personal details woven in. She thought she wanted to be a writer, then got pregnant while at college. She was 19. Weighing her options she was going to abort when she went to church with her mom and the message was just for her. Becoming a single mom changed her career path and she became a nurse.
She is engaging and eloquent in her writing. She paints the patients in ways that makes you feel like you know them. She advocates and cares deeply. Each story was slightly different, giving each setting and interaction a slightly different version of Hadley.
She talks about the experience of dying and weaves in a slight current of peoples’ beliefs about what comes next. Death became beautiful and painful like it is, but it’s evident it’s her calling.
My one beef is that Hadley needs better boundaries and she says it herself. I have felt the personal pull of being the only one my patients need and the resulting savior complex, but I wonder if that’s what contributed to her now divorce that is not mentioned in the book.
Overall- amazing!!!
Hadley is a hospice nurse in Florida who tells the stories of twelve of her patients with personal details woven in. She thought she wanted to be a writer, then got pregnant while at college. She was 19. Weighing her options she was going to abort when she went to church with her mom and the message was just for her. Becoming a single mom changed her career path and she became a nurse.
She is engaging and eloquent in her writing. She paints the patients in ways that makes you feel like you know them. She advocates and cares deeply. Each story was slightly different, giving each setting and interaction a slightly different version of Hadley.
She talks about the experience of dying and weaves in a slight current of peoples’ beliefs about what comes next. Death became beautiful and painful like it is, but it’s evident it’s her calling.
My one beef is that Hadley needs better boundaries and she says it herself. I have felt the personal pull of being the only one my patients need and the resulting savior complex, but I wonder if that’s what contributed to her now divorce that is not mentioned in the book.
Overall- amazing!!!