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My favourite activity would be the art, definitely, 100%. You can spend two hours in there and you think you are only there 10 minutes. Definitely the art, I find it very good, now I have never thought I’d be able to draw a match stick man never mind anything. But you just actually, it just settles you, it’s like a calmness. It really is. Anxiety…
Donal: I’m Donal Bell. I’m 77 years of age, coming on 78. I hope to make it. If I do, that’s fine. It’s in the hands of the good man above.Helen: Donal was quite ill. He got a very bad chest infection, pneumonia, I suppose. He was very, very ill and he had to go into the regional hospital. He was there for just over two weeks and then they knew…
Margaret: Eddie got very, very sick. He was brought in to Foyle Hospice, he was in for about five weeks, so, that was over four years ago. Eddie was diagnosed with a cancer and was told that he had four months to live, so it was very hard to get my head around that. Eventually Eddie got a wee bit better and was able to go out home. I felt very,…
My first introduction to palliative care was roughly a year and a half ago. I was an in-patient in Galway Hospital and three girls came in and introduced themselves as the palliative care team. My first reaction was, OK, I’m gone.At this stage so I have a palliative home care team, so it means they visit me at home. When I came out of hospital…
Mary was initially diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia in November 2012. It came right out of the blue. She took the diagnosis fantastically; she was an amazingly pragmatic person, more concerned about other people than herself. So from the beginning she did everything she thought was right, she read up about it, she thought about it, she put…
