Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments by Hadley Vlahos

9 reviews

sarahrhamlin's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, and Pregnancy

lawmixitup's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Dementia, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Terminal illness

goodboibeefs's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Chronic illness, Cancer, Dementia, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Car accident, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Animal death, Fatphobia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

kk_bonton's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

Please be prepared for the emotional rollercoaster of this book. It’s absolutely amazing and beautiful but I did cry. I personally lost my mum a few years ago and this book definitely touched that nerve, however it was absolutely beautiful to hear these stories, to have these wonderful memories shared. (Also definitely check the author’s tick-tock where she shares more stories like this, that’s how I found the book)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Cancer, Alcohol, Death, Chronic illness, Dementia, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Pregnancy, Addiction, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

Minor: Abortion

This book focuses heavily on the end of life care of the authors patients, there is a lot of care taken with each story but please tread carefully with triggers. She does also discuss aspects of her own life including pregnancy

emmakchapman's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Cancer, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Vomit, and Child death

Minor: Abortion

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Suicide, Medical trauma, Grief, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Child death, Cancer, and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

ladyshamen's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

I follow nurse Hadley on TikTok and was really excited to read her book. A nurse myself, I often come in contact with end of life patients. I work in geropsych so most of mine are late stage dementia and I feel like Hadley has given me a bit of a look into what happens after we recommend hospice. Comfort and a good death with dignity looks different for everyone and this is a good showcase of that. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood

adhdpixie's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cancer, Body shaming, Grief, Animal death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Blood

madisonrose1519's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

I think this book would leave anyone, regardless of religion, faith, or lack thereof, with some peace and hope. I always worry that books about the end of life process are going to leave me even more anxious about what comes next than I was before I read them, but this just brought me peace. I wouldn’t call Nurse Hadley’s experiences jaw-dropping, but I would say that they are small, believable moments that I wish I had experienced myself. I’m so grateful she has written this to share with others. I imagine if I was reading this at the end of my own life, it would bring me peace. And now, as someone who grew up Christian but whose faith has changed a lot over the years, I feel great comfort in reading this book. 

Two things I would have liked:
1) I wish there was a little more detail about each patient. I was left wanting more! 
2) This relates to the first thing, but I saw lots of Hadley’s TikToks before reading the book and I felt like she gave away too much in her previews of the book. I thought for some patients that reading the book would give me a deeper dive into their lives than the TikTok previews did, and I really felt like the TikTok previews proved to be a little too much of “spoilers,” almost. I’m still glad I read it though!!! 

I really appreciate that even after all her experiences, she isn’t pushing religion. She’s just sharing that she believes her experiences point to “something” coming next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood, Abortion, and Vomit

One chapter details the hospice experience of a man in a tent experiencing homelessness.