Wellness Radio With Dr. J

Dr. Jeanette welcomes Melissa Mullamphy, to share her story of being a patient advocate for her mother and all the hardships they both went through to the end of days and beyond. Melissa's new book is Not in Vain; A Promise Kept in which she shares the story from diagnosis to healing after her mother's death.What is the experience at end of life from either a sudden onset of disease or long term caring for a loved one? What does the physical body go through and how can you watch a loved one change and fade away? What happens when the choice of doing and seeking medical interventions is met with challenges of cost, access, or getting the right care hits the concept of saving loved ones with all the help that is possible in the healthcare system? What happens when there are no medical interventions available and you sit waiting with broken heart and soul, experiencing the death process?How can you make sense of death, if all your life, you have been running from it and denied its existence? What happens when da