Hey! I Could Use a Little Help Here! My Story of Healthcare W... by June Zanes Garen

From reading Lynne’s obituary, I have learned that Lynne left many footprints on the journey of her life. The essential ingredients of an eternal legacy-family, friends, compassion, traditions, and integrity-provide the pleasant taste that lingers. Much of what we think is vitally essential to attain and maintain a good life- filled with well-organized financial stability and a svelte physique-is boiled away. An obituary served-and serves-the vital purpose of boiling down the sap of living into the sweet syrup of remembrance. After all, an obituary could be deemed the final summary and a statement of the life lived, and reading those residents’ final stories pushed my thinking about the foundations of what would end up being truly important in life. While working there, I began reading obituaries in a much more probing manner. Often, our elderly patients were mere shadows of the people they had been during the more robust periods of their lives.

Please understand, I am writing solely from my own heart with information supplemented by a simple internet search of Lynne Truxillo, RN.īefore I tell you Lynne’s story, let me explain that in the year between finishing a degree in social work and starting nursing school, I worked in a nursing home. I can only imagine how each of these hurdles lays open the scars of that loss. As I pen this chapter, I am mindful that it has been barely a year since the life of a mother, daughter, sister, wife, aunt, friend, and colleague was tragically taken from the world.Ī year is such a short time, no doubt measured doggedly in holidays, family gatherings, life celebrations, and seasons. It is not my place to intrude on the privacy of people collecting the pieces of their lives, which have been shattered by the loss of a loved one. While my family was engaging in wedding festivities and embracing all that New Orleans had to offer, another family nearby was heading off to a very different kind of life event. This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Lynne Sausse Truxillo, RN, who died on Apfrom injuries sustained during a patient assault while on duty at Baton Rouge General Hospital. Hey! I Could Use a Little Help Here! My Story of Healthcare Workplace Violence by June Zanes Garen available on AmazonĬhapter 1 Lynne Sausse Truxillo, RN Octo~ April 11, 2019

Hey! I Could Use a Little Help Here! My Story of Healthcare W... by June Zanes Garen