This post from a local community page caught my eye, and it perfectly sums up why navigating healthcare today feels like an uphill battle. When you go to a local Emergency Room, you think you’re dealing with one unified hospital team. You aren't. Behind the scenes, many hospitals outsource their ER doctors to separate, massive corporate staffing companies. Because the hospital building and the doctor group operate as separate businesses, they run on completely separate billin

After 24 years, we are preparing our family home for sale. It turns out that sanding down walls is a lot like looking back at a life. You see the layers, the repairs, and the history. As I stand here covered in the dust of two decades, the lessons I learned during my years in hospice have never felt more urgent. Hospice teaches you that we don’t actually own anything. Not a house, not a title, not a status. We are just stewards for a little while. The only thing we truly leav

As this year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the last 12 months of my personal life. A lot of it was heavy. A lot of it required honesty — even when I didn’t feel ready for it. If I’ve learned anything this year, it’s this: life doesn’t wait for us to feel ready. A Year That Didn’t Pause ⏳ This year, my husband Louis faced a cancer recurrence while I was dealing with my own cancer scare. There was no pause button.No moment where life slowed down so we could catch o