

What Hospice Means to Me
By Brianna Veternik, MSW Intern, Hope Hospice In mid October of 2018 I sat in a hospital room angry and very rude towards a hospital social worker discussing hospice with my dad. My dad didn’t need hospice, my dad needed to get better in the hospital so he could continue chemo and beat lung cancer, I thought. Like a lot of people the word “hospice” did not sit right with me, I felt like this was giving up, giving him an expiration date, etc. but I was wrong. My dad signed for