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My own view on palliative care is that it’s not just about someone who is coming near the end of their life. I think palliative care should be available for people with life-limiting illnesses when those illnesses start to become serious; the one that I would have most experience of would be MS. So for instance when a person moves into progressive…
I am a qualified nurse myself which makes no difference because, at the end of the day, you’re a carer. Teresa was first diagnosed with a tumour in roughly about 1997. She was then re-diagnosed at a check-up and scanned that the cancer had returned and by this stage it had badly spread. They told us that really there was no treatable cure and any…
When we had talked about his death, the one thing he was sure of was that he wanted to die at home. I brought him home on the 5th of May 2016. He saw it as a big change. The biggest difficulty for him was that with the help of the hospital palliative care team they put a home care package in place, where we would have a carer come in twice a day…
Basil became very ill at the end of 2012 with heart condition and lungs. He died two years later. An acute hospital was the wrong place for Basil to die. They weren’t able to offer him anything really comforting, soothing or hospice like. You know, they were an acute hospital; that’s their programme. He was tubed this way and tubed that way with…
My partner Una died just over four years ago. And she died within 19 days of them first mentioning cancer, so it was quite sudden. She also had Alzheimer’s. She immediately went into palliative care in the hospital. They were unable to consistently stay on top of her, what became quite considerable pain. It was always a question of pain management…
