Hummingbird
By: Stephen P. Kiernan
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780062369543
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Cancer; Hospice care; Hospice nurses; Married people; Fiction; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Patients; Veterans
Description: Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. At the same time, Deborah's primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history professor and expert in the Pacific Theater of World War II whose career ended in academic scandal. Alone in the world, the embittered professor is dying. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah, he tells her stories from that long-ago war, which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons.