Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.

The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

The more love and support your child receives, the richer his or her life becomes, and nurses can certainly add to the circle of love surrounding your child.

An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.

The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care.

A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.

Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest

Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline "Je suis desole, mon amour.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.