Tag: palliative care

My wife Uzma died peacefully at home. She hadn’t taken any painkillers for three days. Our kids, my parents, and I were next to her. In the weeks leading up to her death, she was visited by many old friends.

About one and a half years before she died, my wife Uzma, undergoing treatment for stage 4 breast cancer , started looking for an appointment with a palliative care physician close to home. She called a few different palliative care