SUMMARY: During tonight’s Empower Hour! webinar Gail Pope and Carol Hulse from Brighthaven shelter and hospice joined us. They shared many poignant stories of “dying” pets that they nourished with the Love Sandwich which they shared with us.
- 00:00 Introductions
- 04:20 About BrightHaven
- 07:45 Menu for healing
- 13:10 Quality of life in the last season of life
- 14:40 Caring for caregiver
- 15:50 Pain & suffering / pain management
- 18:45 Quality of life/death, simplicity
- 23:00 PEACEFUL checklist / focus on living
- 28:35 Q&A: when to move to hospice care
- 35:00 Q&A: euthanasia vs hospice care
- 44:30 Q&A: how to move out of anticipatory grief
- 51:50 Having a holistic health care team
- 55:00 Q&A: if animal’s pain can’t be controlled