{"id":3233,"date":"2010-11-17T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2010-11-17T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:15:59","slug":"the-hospice-path-bill-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/17\/the-hospice-path-bill-gallagher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hospice Path and Bill Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3235\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/17\/the-hospice-path-bill-gallagher\/bill10th-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3235\" title=\"bill10th\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/11\/bill10th1-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/11\/bill10th1-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/11\/bill10th1-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/11\/bill10th1-358x450.jpg 358w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/11\/bill10th1.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Regular listeners to NCPR know that we&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/pages\/series-the-hospice-path\">reporting in-depth<\/a> on the ways that hospice programs can improve end-of-life care.<\/p>\n<p>Our main partner in this series has been Bill Gallagher, a 10th Mountain Division veteran (he served in the Italian campaign in World War 2), long-time teacher, and former Harrietstown supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>He lived with failing lungs for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Early Monday morning, Bill passed away at home in Saranac Lake.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of hours with him in the final months of his life and he was an incredibly warm, honest, courageous and hilarious man.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife Tomi welcomed me into their home at a very difficult and complex time.<\/p>\n<p>Devout Roman Catholics, they wanted to talk openly about the dying process and the ways that hospice can help.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, we&#8217;ll air the next story in The Hospice Path.\u00a0 For today, I want to acknowledge Bill, Tomi, and their wonderful family.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been incredibly generous and welcoming, to me and NCPR.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular listeners to NCPR know that we&#8217;ve been reporting in-depth on the ways that hospice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,4803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}