A New "First Time" for Nashville Music Medics
| Type of post: | Chorus news item |
| Sub-type: | No sub-type |
| Posted By: | Sam English |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Sun, Feb 23 2025 |
Have I got a breaking story for (most of ) you! (Paul, Kirk and Wayne have heard this one)
In the event you are not aware, the home page of our website, NashvilleMusicMedics.org, tells the story about our outreach and invites guests to contact us at BHSMusicmedics@gmail.com if there is an interest in seeking us to sing for a hospital-confined child or patients in the local residential hospital facility. That email gets routed to me and to two other Medics on our admin team.
This is where the story begins.
On Sunday evening, February 16th, I received an email from a woman in TX via this BHSMusicMedics email. I'll call her Cindy (that is her name). Cindy had lost her mother in early January in hospice care. During the course of that hospice stay a local musical group (Swan Songs) sang and visited with the family, ministering and providing some comfort in troubled times. Cindy's dear friend of many years, Sheri, was experiencing a similar life event with her own mother who had been admitted to AliveHospice Nashville on the Thursday right after our visit on February 12th. Cindy's sister Sheila lives here in Nashville.
Cindy, the good friend, found our webpage using a Google search!
It gets interesting. We all know that we never know when the time will come for the hospice patient to complete the journey.
Cindy wanted to give her good friend a similar musical outreach for the family. Given the urgency and a strong will to respond to this special request we were able to schedule a visit with the family on Wed, Feb 19th, represented by a Nashville Music Medics quartet, "Not Good Enough".
AND THEN...SNOWMAGEDDEN came in and we got snowed in. No visit that morning.
AND THEN the patient took a turn for the worse.
AND THEN the weather cleared…
and we were on our way for a late afternoon visit.
"Not Good Enough" spent about an hour with the sisters and a cousin at mom Janice's bedside as Janice was transitioning.
I wish we could have reached out to all of our Medics but understanding the urgency and a Tennessee snowstorm, we were able to respond in less than 72 hours under the circumstances.
It is Great to Be a Nashville Music Medic
and in the words of a Music Medic friend in Portland, ME, "Making a small but positive difference in troubled lives is a task well worth repeating" . .. Glenn Walton
Have I got a breaking story for most of you! (Paul, Kirk and Wayne have heard this one)
In the event you are not aware, the home page of our website, NashvilleMusicMedics.org tells the story about our outreach and invites guests to contact us at BHSMusicmedics@gmail.com if there is an interest in seeking us to sing for a hospital-confined child or patients in the local residential hospital facility. That email gets routed to me and to two other Medics on our admin team.
This is where the story begins.
On Sunday evening, February 16th, I received an email from a woman in TX via this BHSMusicMedics email. I'll call her Cindy (that is her name). Cindy had lost her mother in early January in hospice care. During the course of that hospice stay a local musical group (Swan Songs) sang and visited with the family, ministering and providing some comfort in troubled times. Cindy's dear friend of many years, Sheri, was experiencing a similar life event with her own mother who had been admitted to AliveHospice Nashville on the Thursday right after our visit on February 12th. Cindy's sister Sheila lives here in Nashville.
Cindy, the good friend, found our webpage using a Google search!
It gets interesting. We all know that we never know when the time will come for the hospice patient to complete the journey.
Cindy wanted to give her good friend a similar musical outreach for the family. Given the urgency and a strong will to respond to this special request we were able to schedule a visit with the family on Wed, Feb 19th, represented by a Nashville Music Medics quartet, "Not Good Enough".
AND THEN...SNOWMAGEDDEN came in and we got snowed in. No visit that morning.
AND THEN the patient took a turn for the worse.
AND THEN the weather cleared…
and we were on our way for a late afternoon visit.
"Not Good Enough" spent about an hour with the sisters and a cousin at mom Janice's bedside as Janice was transitioning.
I wish we could have reached out to all of our Medics but understanding the urgency and a Tennessee snowstorm, we were able to respond in less than 72 hours under the circumstances.
It is Great to Be a Nashville Music Medic
and in the words of a Music Medic friend in Portland, ME, "Making a small but positive difference in troubled lives is a task well worth repeating" . .. Glenn Walton
