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"People don't go to Sobell to die, they go there to live!"
“Those visiting the hospice for the first time often comment that it is not the gloomy and depressing place they had imagined it to be. Instead they find a place that if full of life and even joy.”
It’s About Life aims to help us break down some of the stigmas attached to end of life care and help people understand just how important our work is in our community. From the work of the ward staff in the hospice to the community teams that visit people in their own homes, from the specialist therapists and bereavement counsellors to social workers and the support of the community who support us.
Sobell House is far more than a just a place, or a building where people come to die
It is a whole concept in care.
For more information go to www.itsaboutlife.co.uk
"People don't go to Sobell to die, they go there to live!"
“Those visiting the hospice for the first time often comment that it is not the gloomy and depressing place they had imagined it to be. Instead they find a place that if full of life and even joy.”
It’s About Life aims to help us break down some of the stigmas attached to end of life care and help people understand just how important our work is in our community. From the work of the ward staff in the hospice to the community teams that visit people in their own homes, from the specialist therapists and bereavement counsellors to social workers and the support of the community who support us.
Sobell House is far more than a just a place, or a building where people come to die
It is a whole concept in care.
For more information go to www.itsaboutlife.co.uk
If only we can recognize death is a process and not an event and just like these flowers if the process is done correctly it can be a beautiful thing. #palliativecare #dyingwithdignity
"People don't go to Sobell to die, they go there to live!"
“Those visiting the hospice for the first time often comment that it is not the gloomy and depressing place they had imagined it to be. Instead they find a place that if full of life and even joy.”
It’s About Life aims to help us break down some of the stigmas attached to end of life care and help people understand just how important our work is in our community. From the work of the ward staff in the hospice to the community teams that visit people in their own homes, from the specialist therapists and bereavement counsellors to social workers and the support of the community who support us.
Sobell House is far more than a just a place, or a building where people come to die
It is a whole concept in care.
For more information go to www.itsaboutlife.co.uk
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I will continue my theme of mom's vigil. My two sisters and I are at her bedside 24 hours a day, taking 6 hour shifts at a time. In this shot are my mom and my wife who has been an unbelievable support coming to the hospital as much as she can.
As I said yesterday, not a fun theme, but I guess a 365 will have a range of emotions. Thanks everyone for your strong support it's much appreciated.
2-1-11
This is a collage of a time capsule of January 31, 2012.
Left to right:
1. Up early, hygiene and makeup
2. Earrings and bracelet
3. Necessary coffee - sweet nectar of life
4. Entering the pediatric palliative care center where I am honored to work
5. A home visit with a 12 year old boy playing music for me as he endures treatment for a brain tumor
6. Back at the hospital making hand molds for the parents of a little girl actively dying of respiratory failure.
It feels like work getting up in the morning, but walking in those doors I know I am one of the most privileged and honored to be welcome into the lives of families at their most intimate times of both heartache and joy.
Time capsule for Kim Klassen's Beyond Layers class,
I took a 4 hour drive down to St. Louis with one of my fellow social workers and our palliative care physician to attend the 4th National Congress on End of Life and Palliative Care last Thursday through Saturday. The conference was held at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. Union Station was just stunning---just a beautiful building. The conference was excellent and it was good to get away and spend some time with two of my favorite co-workers. Unfortunately the days were so packed that I never made it down to the Arch. My ultra wide angle was just begging to take some shots of the Arch but I had to settle for these interior shots.
Boundary-Similkameen MLA Linda Larson announces funding for improved access to hospice palliative care in Osoyoos/Oliver. Desert Valley Hospice Society in Osoyoos received $30,000 for palliative day program spaces at the Supportive Care Centre.
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Palliative care in Kerala. Home visit of the team.
So many need palliative care in India!!!!! Kerala is the most advanced Indian state regarding palliative care with a well functioning program of home visits to patients. However, for obscure reasons, the indian law does not allow yet the use of all effective anti pain treatments (morphine...).
Sacred Heart University's Interprofessional Palliative Care Committee presented “Living With Palliative Care: Joan’s Story” a panel discussion that focused on what patients, families and professionals need to know about end-of-life comfort treatments. Speakers included, Donna Fedus, gerontologist and founder of Borrow My Glasses, LLC, and project director of Living With Palliative Care, Heather Sung, MD, founder of PalliMD in Norwalk, and Susan Sweitzer, palliative care adviser, Living With Palliative Care Project. The event was held in the WSHU Broadcast Center, Fairfield, CT. Wednesday, March 13, 2019.
BC is providing over $1 million for improved access to hospice palliative care in Squamish, Powell River and the Sunshine Coast, including the first-ever hospice beds in the Sea to Sky region.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017HLTH0002-000011
BC is providing over $1 million for improved access to hospice palliative care in Squamish, Powell River and the Sunshine Coast, including the first-ever hospice beds in the Sea to Sky region.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017HLTH0002-000011
Harry R. Truman (1896–1980) was an American businessman, bootlegger, and prospector. He lived near Mount St. Helens, an active volcano in Washington state, and was the owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake near the foot of the mountain. Truman came to fame as a folk hero in the months leading up to the volcano's 1980 eruption after refusing to leave his home despite evacuation orders. He is presumed to have been killed by a pyroclastic flow that overtook his lodge and buried the site under 150 ft (46 m) of volcanic debris.
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Truman was a fan of Schenley whiskey with Coca-Cola and swore frequently. He loved discussing politics and reportedly hated Republicans, hippies, young children, and the elderly. He once refused to allow Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to stay at his lodge, dismissing him as an "old coot". He changed his mind when he learned Douglas's identity, chased him for 1 mile (1.6 km), and convinced him to stay. When his wife Edna died in 1978, Truman closed his lodge and afterward only rented out a handful of boats and cabins during the summer
Truman became a minor celebrity during the two months of volcanic activity preceding the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, giving interviews to reporters and expressing his opinion that the danger was exaggerated. "I don't have any idea whether it will blow," he said, "but I don't believe it to the point that I'm going to pack up." Truman displayed little concern about the volcano and his situation: "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it. This area is heavily timbered, Spirit Lake is in between me and the mountain, and the mountain is a mile away, the mountain ain't gonna hurt me." Law enforcement officials were incensed by his refusal to evacuate because media representatives kept entering the restricted zone near the volcano to interview him, endangering themselves in the process. Still, Truman remained steadfast. "You couldn't pull me out with a mule team. That mountain's part of Truman and Truman's part of that mountain."
Truman told reporters that he was knocked from his bed by precursor earthquakes, so he responded by moving his mattress to the basement. He claimed to wear spurs to bed to cope with the earthquakes while he slept. He scoffed at the public's concern for his safety, responding to scientists' claims about the threat of the volcano that "the mountain has shot its wad and it hasn't hurt my place a bit, but those goddamn geologists with their hair down to their butts wouldn't pay no attention to ol' Truman."
As a result of his defiant commentary, Truman became something of a folk hero and was the subject of many songs and poems by children. One group of children from Salem, Oregon, sent him banners inscribed "Harry – We Love You", which moved him so much that he took a helicopter trip (paid for by National Geographic) to visit them on May 14. He also received many fan letters, including several marriage proposals. A group of fifth graders from Grand Blanc, Michigan, wrote letters that brought him to tears. In return, he sent them a letter and volcanic ash, which the students later sold to buy flowers for his family after the eruption.
He caused a media frenzy, appearing on the front page of The New York Times and The San Francisco Examiner and attracting the attention of National Geographic, United Press International, and The Today Show. Many major magazines composed profiles, including Time, Life, Newsweek, Field & Stream, and Reader's Digest. A historian named Richard W. Slatta wrote that "his fiery attitude, brash speech, love of the outdoors, and fierce independence… made him a folk hero the media could adore." Slatta pointed to Truman's "unbendable character and response to the forces of nature" as a source of his rise to fame, and the interviews with him added "color" to reports about the events at Mount St. Helens. Truman was immortalized, according to Slatta, "with many of the embellished qualities of the western hero", and the media spotlight created a persona that was "in some ways quite different from his true character." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman
Truman picture by USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3Lcb
Truman is used as an extreme example of geriatric care in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Students trained by the Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP) Kerala in Palliative Care show how they gave back to society by providing medical services to the underprivileged at their homes.
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"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."
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George Bernard Shaw.
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Parksville-Qualicum MLA Michelle Stilwell is joined by representatives from Island Health and Trillium Lodge to announce funding for palliative care in the Oceanside area as well as around Vancouver Island.
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Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Banners on trailer being driven around the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne by Right to Life opposing (although not so obviously) the Andrews Labor Government's voluntary euthanasia bill which passed both houses of the Victorian Parliament in late 2017, but not to take effect until 2019.
The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill passed the Legislative Council upper house in November 2017 in modified form and due to this required passage again through the Legislative Assembly which was passed soon after receiving royal assent on December 5.
Holding the hand of my father on his deathbed at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday, November 29, 2008.
He was on palliative care, only oxygen and pain medication to keep him comfortable. Except for a brief moment of recognition later that Saturday, he was already gone. His heart stopped at 5:15am this morning, December 1, 2008, after prolonged illness.
Gerard Kreussling, 1931-2008, December 1, 2008
Portfolio: As noted in the comment below, this image was used to illustrate the online article, From Pain to Palliative Care, accompanying the WBUR radio documentary "Quality of Death: End of Life Care in America". My Dad would have been proud.
2020-09-24 For my mother: Goodbye #2
2020-10-14: Corrected the links to the WBUR series, which had been archived.
2022-12-03: This image was used to illustrate the online interview/article "How Hospice Companies Put Profits Over Patients: An Investigation Into The Business Of Dying" by Diane Rehm with Ava Kofman. Permission to use granted post hoc.
Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Sweet old Artemis is not long for this world.
Meanwhile, I have developed a skill I never thought I'd need to learn: subcutaneous injections of fluids to a cat in kidney failure.
Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Back at the hospital, this evening, Vera Lynn was singing softly to my mother (from a DVD player) and almost everyone from the family was present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Dwf93z7w8&feature=related
This is my nephew, Armand, his girlfriend, Leah, and Armand's daughter, Jada. Leah is holding the booklet I made of yesterday's hospital photos. I also included all the comments of support from you .... my flickr family.
I can see Leah is moved by your caring words.
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During WW II my mother was in England in the airforce. Women who joined the Royal Air Force were in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). As a WAAF she worked in conjunction with the new radar stations tracking incoming bomber formations. She pushed model planes around with a stick while leaning over a large map of Britain. Women like my mother were the early warning ears and eyes of the RAF during the Battle of Britain. She was 18 years old.
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Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Construction is starting this month on a new 15-room hospice residence in Langley at 219a Street and 52 Avenue.
The new hospice space is designed to provide individuals, families and caregivers with the means to access palliative and end-of-life care in a comfortable environment. The hospice will include specialized care spaces and private rooms with outdoor access for each resident.
When the facility is completed in summer 2021, the new residence will replace the 10 hospice beds currently on the Langley Memorial Hospital campus, allowing those 10 beds to be repurposed for long-term care.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/22835
Yesterday was a long day...waiting to hear back from our doctor about what to do. We had a communication problemo and I's still waiting.
I decided not to give Sadie the Previcox with her supper last night. It seems to upset her tummy and make her woozy. We had a nice evening walk.
She now has resumed coughing (if you'd call it that); the boughs leave her panting. She continues to eat w/o much gusto and she is doing her business outside and sleeping alot.
This one looks better light box/full screen viewing I think.
With $250,000 in funding provided to the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and University of British Columbia (UBC) Hospital Foundation from the Province, the foundation can continue its support of Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) palliative residential care program by expanding it to all 37 publicly funded residential care facilities in Vancouver.
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Despite all the recent rain, a sunny summers day welcomed seventy four classic Minis to the Mini Fixers annual Cotswold Classic Mini Tour from Fairford Leisure Centre to The Trout Inn and a barbeque at Lechlade on the 29th of July 2012.
Mini Fixers are a club based at The Trout Inn in Lechlade devoted to the Restoration, Preservation and Maintenance of the Classic Mini.
This annual event, in aid of Sobell House Hospice Charity, is a mystery tour open to any owner of a classic Mini, and travels along twisty, narrow and remote country roads and through quaint little Cotswold villages in the glorious Cotswold countryside.
One up on last year it included negotiating two (shallow) fords and this year the halfway stop off point was Broadway Tower, a Victorian Folly at one of the highest points in The Cotswolds. At the tower there was also the possibility to visit a restored, underground nuclear bunker.
A three mile section through the private grounds of a country house estate, once home to the largest collection of books and manuscripts in the country, showed how the other half live compared to the small but quaint Cotswold-stone farm workers cottages in many of the surrounding sleepy villages.
A fundamental part of the tour route book is a series of notes on points of interest along the way and the Cotswolds is full of history and legend to interest, intrigue and amuse the intrepid traveller and this year included, amongst others, information on the oldest stained glass windows in the country in Fairford Church buried in a field for protection in WWII, RIAT, the largest military air tattoo in the country, the magnificent 4th Century Chedworth Roman Villa (accidentally discovered in 1864 by a gamekeeper digging for a ferret) and the mysterious moving standing stones (according to legend anyway!) around Lower Swell.
For the 2012 tour the club was pleased to welcome representatives from the two national leading Classic Mini publications as well as two enthusiasts from Holland to accompany all the other Mini enthusiasts on the run.
A trophy was presented to Matthew Fisher for his Mk2 Mini voted best at the show by his fellow participants, and in recognition of their enthusiasm a prize was also presented to Pascal & Elen from The Netherlands who as part of their holiday in England joined us on the Tour.
The 70 mile round trip was again a resounding success and raised £618 for Sobell House Hospice Charity. Mini Fixers would like to formally thank all participants for their contribution.
To see photographs of the event and more information about the Mini Fixers see www.minifixers.co.uk
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