Words don’t have to be this blatantly offensive to cause offense. Watching what you say isn’t as easy — or even as all-fire important

By Scott Swedenburg

Just not too high. In the fourth installment, the letter was signed by a nurse who shared how she had cared for a seriously ill patient: “Her husband was becoming jaundiced. He was becoming less lucid. His abdomen was beginning to swell, a sign that medicines were not being excreted from his body. He became very quiet. His pain level dropped. As difficult as it is to see those symptoms, I was quietly thankful that this gentleman was at home with his loved ones and with me as his nurse.”