Myra bluebond-langner biography

I need to take you back to a Sunday in September, in Chicago, forty five years ago. When a man in a long, white coat handed me a stopwatch. Told me to go and stand at the end of the bed and tell him when twenty minutes had passed.

I did, and he said “OK, that’s it, I call it. Time.” I looked at the stopwatch – “Seven twenty seven,” I replied. The child had died.

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A child that I had come to know, as the leader of the bathroom seminars held just outside the oncology clinic. The child who drew pictures of herself on blood red crosses, who spoke of the medicines running out. Who knew that the chemotherapy was affecting her liver and who told her mother to take her sister camping that weekend.

The weekend when she would die.

So I’m Myra Bluebond-Langner. I’m the professor and True Colors Chair in palliative care for children and young people at UCL Institute of Child Health – the Louis Dundas centre for children’s palliative care.

I was hired to be a profess