{"id":389,"date":"2014-09-03T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-09-04T01:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T10:45:31","slug":"sept-3-i-knew-you-were-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 3 – “I knew you were coming”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the hospice patients I visited today greeted me with these words, “I knew you were coming”. \u00a0I was surprised because this patient and I have arranged that I don’t need to call ahead to schedule my visit. \u00a0Most of my visits to other patients are scheduled, so visits to her stand out by that dynamic alone. \u00a0I was intrigued and asked her how she knew I was coming. \u00a0She replied, “It is Wednesday, and that is the day you visit. \u00a0I also want to hear about your birthday”. \u00a0Now she really had my attention as I had not mentioned my birthday on my last visit. \u00a0It turns out one of \u00a0the nurses told her about how we celebrated it the previous week at our Team Meeting.<\/p>\n

This patient really enjoys my visits and since it was my week to see her she just knew I would be there.. \u00a0Sometimes I wonder if I am imagining how much patients benefit from my visits. \u00a0Then I have one like this visit and I know my visits produce benefit. \u00a0I learned from this visit that making time and going to see someone who is not able to travel to see others makes a big difference. \u00a0I have been doing some visiting on my own time to people from my church. \u00a0They are surprised but glad to see me. \u00a0So if you want to have positive effect on someone you know why not visit them, share kindness, and listen to what they are telling you. \u00a0By giving them your time you are giving them a gift that is priceless!<\/p>\n

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  One of the hospice patients I visited today greeted me with these words, “I knew you were coming”. \u00a0I was surprised because this patient and I have arranged that I don’t need to call ahead to schedule my visit. \u00a0Most of my visits to other patients are scheduled, so visits to her stand out … Continue reading Sept. 3 – “I knew you were coming”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}