Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN Joins Alz Authors – Blog Post 2/22/2022 is Featured

On February 22, 2022, Susan became a proud member of Alz Authors, having her blog post featured along with Founding Member Marianne Sciucco, RN on the Alz Authors website.

Susan J. Farese, Author of POETIC EXPRESSIONS IN NURSING: SHARING THE CARING and Member of Alz Authors

CLICK to read the blog post: Susan J. Farese Reflects on Alzheimer’s and Nursing in Poetry

Alz Authors is a phenomenal global community of over 300 vetted authors writing about the dementias. Their goal is to raise awareness of these diseases and to spotlight carefully vetted books and blogs recommended for caregivers and others looking for knowledge and support. Each week they feature a new author/blogger on their blog and also have a podcast which features Alz Authors. For more information and resources, please visit alzauthors.com, the Alz Authors Bookstore, the Alz Authors Podcast, Alz Authors Helpful Sites, and the Alz Author’s Blog.

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Susan J. Farese Interviewed on ‘Love Conquers Alz’ Podcast – Episode #22

Here is the link to an inspiring, poignant and important interview that I was a guest on – the ‘Love Conquers Alz‘ #Podcast Episode #22 ‘On The Power of Art’. The incredibly compassionate, articulate and empathetic hosts were podcasters/filmmakers Susie Singer Carter and Kassi Crews. We recorded it on Mothers Day, 2020 and it was posted online on Wednesday, October 7, 2020.

I was so honored and it was such a pleasure for me to be a guest on the Love Conquers Alz Podcast! I know that my maternal grandmother and soulmate, Ann, (who suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s Disease and passed away in 1971) was listening from up above when I shared my tribute #poem to her, ‘Ann’s Zest Ends’ ! She passed away in 1971.

Besides reading Ann’s’ Zest Ends on Love Conquers Alz, I also read my poem “Caregiver” dedicated to all persons caring for family members or friends with dementia and other disabilities or diseases. Caregiving can be truly stressful, and caregivers need to take care of themselves so they can care for others.

Links to listen/watch:

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Vc2q0JqPtYuz7UMZCXSGL

Stitcher http://bit.ly/LCAStchr

Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-conquers-alz/id1492023291

Youtube https://youtu.be/WlBDM5WW6s8

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More links:

Love Conquers Alz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loveconquersalz

My Mom and the Girl Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyMomAndTheGirl

Go Girl Media: https://www.gogirlmedia.com/

Susie Singer Carter IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802053/

Kassi Crews Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KassiCrews

Kassi Crews IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187707/

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Here’s my previous 2014 blog post including my tribute poem to Grandma Ann, ‘Ann’s Zest Ends” :

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The Day Room at Night: A Haiku

The Day Room at Night:

A Haiku

By Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN,

Veteran (former MAJ) Army Nurse Corps

SJF Communications  October, 2014 

Published by O-Dark Thirty 2015

(Inspired by many late night chats with soldiers

…as a nurse on night shift)

 

Susan Farese Medical
Susan Farese, MSN, RN. Photo by Sylvia Moore Photography, 2013.

 

Always on night shift

Out of bed to the day room

Anxiety plus.

 

So I challenged them

Put away that cigarette

And just chat with me.

 

Stories would abound

Sometimes, even tears would flow.

Cathartic rivers.

 

You wouldn’t believe

the magnitude, their missions

Poignant and heartfelt.

 

That was the 80’s

Before the world changed that day

On 9-11

 

Imagine, right now

Post-traumatic  stress endured

And shared with no one.

 

So don’t be afraid

To reach out to a veteran

Pretend it’s night shift.