Hospice, Pit Bulls and Boob Sweat – Episode 10

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[Special Note: A portion of today's show notes requires use of your best Cookie Monster voice.]

Hi! Hey do you want to play game now with me, Cookie Monster? Okay, I start.

“One of these things is not like the other ones, one of these things just doesn’t belong. Can you guess which thing is not like the other ones…before I finish my song?”

Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock.

Damn it Cookie Monster, Give me more time!!

1. In this corner we have hospice: a safe, sedate pillar of the underlying sadness that comes before imminent death.
2. In the other corner we have pit bulls: animals that humans generally fear and will avoid in order to keep their own limbs intact.
3. The last corner features a WILD and CRAZY GIRL whose main professional responsibilities include marketing of the other two, all the while maintaining truth to her own passions and personality.

Sounds like a juggling act? Turns out that our guest for this episode, Christine Zajac, has made us believers that there IS NO ONE thing that doesn’t belong with the other! Not in this game.

Who knew?

But what about boob sweat, you say? Well…you’ll just have to listen in carefully…and let us know what YOU think.

• Samaritan Hospice
• The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Smilin’ Pitbull Rescue
• Bad Rap
• Skin Texture Photo (a.k.a. Boob Sweat)
• New England Journal of Medicine: Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
• Miller-McCune: Palliative Care May Trump Heroic Measures in Life Expectancy
• KMIR6: 7 Things You May Not Know About Hospice Care
• Temperament and Myths from the organization who cared for the Michael Vick dogs: Monster Myths