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Caitríona HastingsI’m Caitríona Hastings, I’m living here in Killiney now. My own job – I was a lecturer in Irish studies and heritage studies. My husband was ordained to the Church of Ireland 25 years ago this year and when he was ordained first we moved to the west and we’ve been going around the west ever since.Well, I knew myself something was…
I’m Pat Symth, I live in Belfast, I’ve lived here all my life and I’m married to Angela and I used to work as a staff nurse in theatres in the Royal Hospital, and Angela was a teacher. And we will be forty years married this October. I met Angela in a local musical society, St Agnes’s Choral Society, she had just come back from Canada, she…
My name is Lynne Armstrong and I have lived with Multiple Sclerosis every single minute of every day of my life. It is a chronic, debilitating disease and, at times, it’s actually a very humiliating disease because of nasty things that happen. I think there is more hope nowadays for people who are diagnosed. Nowadays there are disease modifying…
Karen: Well I think when people hear the words palliative care they automatically associate it with the end of life, and actually what palliative care is really about, and what we really strive to achieve, is to try and keep people living to the very end and really enjoying their life and having good quality of life right until the end of their…
Terence: The hospice to me is a life saver because I’ll tell you, if I hadn’t gone in when I did, I don’t think I would be here now, I was that bad but I wouldn’t give in, I wouldn’t give in to it because of that word hospice, totally, because it’s just totally stubbornness on my side, because I’m not going into hospice, I’m not going down, I’m…
