Kim with Kathy on Narragansett Beach in Rhode Island on Thanksgiving, 2018.Īlready “beloved” by the palliative care community, according to Amyīerman, a senior program officer with the John A. Washington University and now at the University of Virginia, who authored theĢ017 book LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Kim is a licensed social worker and nursing professor, first at George Palliative Care’s C linical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. Was a hospice industry leader who, most recently, had been tasked with writingĪnd editing the latest edition of the National Coalition for Hospice and
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It was there that Kim (and sometimes Kathy) documented, in intimate, painful, and often amusing detail, why Kathy decided to forego chemotherapy and later comprehensive hospice care (two decisions that surprised colleagues and cyber strangers alike), how to be a caregiver for someone at the end of life (with only modest assistance from a palliative care physician), and how to navigate the painful and profound moments that accompany dying and grief.įew people could have been better qualified for such a mission. More reminders can be found on the internet, whether on Kim’s Twitter profile ( her Facebook page, or the GoFundMe account set up by a friend to defray Kathy’s healthcare costs. The painting hangs in her living room as a reminder of that. Melt snow so children could play outside. And insisting that “we have to get rid of Pennsylvania- have to.”Īnd the entire day that she was absolutely sure that Viagra could magically Like asking if Kim’s non-existent husband had a good
Her blood to alleviate the pain, Kathy began to spew things out that made Kim Near theĮnd, as her liver and kidneys shut down and medical marijuana coursed through Kathy was 54 and had been diagnosed with ovarianĬlear cell carcinoma a little more than six months before her death. Kim created the painting not long after Kathy, her wife and partner ofġ8 years, died on August 4. Virginia home to offer their condolences.
Starter, certainly, for anybody who’s since passed through the Charlottesville, It consists of justįour words, in big block letters, painted on a white background. Thought about the life they shared and when it would end. The sofa where her wife, Kathy Brandt, spent some of her final weeks alive,īeneath the skylight that Kim and Kathy would dreamily gaze through as they T here’s a painting in Kimberly Acquaviva C’94 SW’95 Gr’00’s house
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