As a volunteer I have met so many resilient people who find joy in living each day. As a bereaved grandparent I have felt the care and support of staff and fellow group members. Thank you for it all!
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This would have been our 50th wedding anniversary. We had 45 years of loving my best friend and soulmate Patrick. Having loved someone so deeply I can understand why the pain is deep as well. Loving Patrick and losing him has given me a new aspect on
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I remember a client Clemstow, a musician and saxophonist, who was trying to organize a benefit concert to save animals even though he was terminal. His favourite song “Feelings” now always reminds me of him. Each time I played it on the piano, he sang! I thought
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My best friend’s father died in another province. It was so hard because I couldn’t get time off work to be there. We talked and supported each other as my Dad died a few years ago. My friend told me that she felt her Dad visited her
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I had the honour and privilege to care for a client and her family through the dying process. She was transferred to hospice as her symptoms increased. I was recently notified by her daughter she had passed away. At her viewing her daughter said to me she
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My beloved wife Robin passed away Aug 9/16 after 5 month battle with cancer. I always remember her with a big smile in her face and for now I only want to say I loved her and I always will.
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Hospice Palliative Care has been a gift in my own life. I have felt called to it and it is strange because one would think it is a hard vocation. However even though it is hard, there is a joy in being in an environment that is
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I’ve always known life goes in cycles but now I am experiencing this. When you are a child you move from grade school to high school then college/university. Along the way, grandparents die and when someone your own age dies, you say they died too young. Then
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(So thankful to serve others) I have told this story many times before, but for the new volunteers it will be new. In 1997 my mother died after suffering from colon cancer. It was a long journey for our family. We had a lovely lady come from
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My grandmother passed away more than 20 years ago but I still remember, vividly, our time together, as a family, making all the arrangements for her funeral. Both daughters, all her grandchildren (5), and even some of the older grand-children went to the funeral home & assisted
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