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Grief Starts at Diagnosis, Not at Death | Amy Pritzker & Terri Gortnar
People will forgive you for saying something clumsy to someone who is grieving. What's harder to forgive, Amy Pritzker tells us, is not showing up at all.
Amy is the education and curriculum development coordinator at Hospice Simcoe in Barrie, and has worked in hospice palliative care for over 15 years. She's joined by Terri Gortnar, who shares what it's been like to lose her daughter Claire and to know her son Joseph will pass from the same disease. We don't go into detail about Claire's death, but it's part of the conversation, so we wanted to say so.
Amy walks us through the history of the…
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