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Hospice
What could you do for Isabel Hospice during Hospice
Care Week? Hospice Care Week 8-14 October
Hospice Care Week is held once a year
with the aim of highlighting the work
of local hospices in their communities.
This year the theme is ‘I love my
Hospice’. Many people think that a
Hospice is just a building where you go
in the last days of your life to be cared
for by wonderful staff. Of course this is
true, but this is only a small part of the
Isabel Hospice story.
Last year, Isabel Hospice cared for
1,555 people. A relatively small
number were cared for by the In-
Patient Unit, with the majority living
and dying at home. Here is the story of
just one young woman, whose story
busts many myths. She is young, she
has a lung terminal lung condition and
lives at home with her husband and
dog, Dax.
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Natasha (43) lives in Bishop’s
Stortford. Once a week she attends the
Isabel Hospice Living Well with Isabel
sessions at the Barnabas centre in
Thorley and fi nds it lifts her mood, as
well as helping her prepare her family
for her death, by writing letters to
them and making memory boxes.
“I love my Hospice because they have
helped me to make goals. This year I’ve
been on holiday to Greece, I’ve been
to South Africa to visit my family and
Cologne to see the Christmas markets.
I don’t think I’ll see another Christmas
after this one, so it’s about making
memories with my husband.
I never thought my life would be like
this, but Isabel Hospice is helping me
make the most of what I have got. My
mood lifts when I’m there and I’ve
made a fi rm, if unconventional friend
with Roy, a former rodeo rider, private
investigator and lorry driver, who is
85. Isabel Hospice is a wonderfully
encompassing place, which for me has
a focus on living as well as dying.
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Natasha took on the 5k Hospice Bubble Rush this summer
with family and friends, pushing her in her wheelchair
Date for your diary
3rd November - Chairman’s Rock and
Roll – at Sawbridgeworth Memorial
Hall. Tickets are £12 each and there
will be a bar and a raffl e. Tickets from
Cllr Keith Warnell 07427 646311.
Music from the 50s, 60’s and 70’s
music by 5% Volume, a band run by Ex
Kinks member John Dalton.
21st November – Christmas at the
Manor – a wonderful lunch and
shopping experience at The Manor of
Groves in High Wych. Tickets are £40.
Please call 01438 798869 to get your
tickets.
2nd December - The Isabel Hospice
Lights of Love ceremony will be held
once again in the Market Square at
4pm. For information on how to make
a dedicatation to a loved one, contact
Heather West on 01707 382500.
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