How your donation makes a difference
Patch is Hospiscare’s Specialist Palliative Care Paramedic. After joining Hospiscare on a secondment two and a half years ago, Patch was given the opportunity to stay and develop the role alongside Hospiscare’s Clinical teams, adding real value to the specialist care we offer.
Patch gets called to urgent cases at any time. Gerald (Ges) is just one patient Patch has supported during his time at Hospiscare.
He explains: “Ges had been known to the community team for a number of months as we had also cared for his wife who had recently died. He himself had cancer, so was under the care of a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) based at King’s House.
During one of her planned telephone reviews she was very concerned about Ges’s physical condition as he was very muddled on the telephone. She decided to go and do a home visit at once so that she could assess how he was and asked me to go with her. Ges was very unwell and was bed-bound, and it was obvious that he hadn’t been able to take proper care of himself or his dogs for some days.”
“If you can afford to make a donation, no matter how much, it is always appreciated. It is such a privilege to be able to help patients, but we simply couldn’t do so without you.”
Patch continues: “We liaised with his GP and recommended that he was urgently admitted to hospital. Ges was admitted straight away and received the appropriate treatment for sepsis, a life-threatening infection – but without this, his outcome would have been very different. When he was well enough, Ges returned home where we continued to monitor him regularly to ensure he was managing his symptoms and to support him with his grief, which was the fundamental cause of him becoming so depressed and unwell at that time.
It’s taken some time, but Ges’s health has now settled, his cancer is currently under control and so he is well enough to be discharged from our care for the time being.”
We are only able to help people like Ges because of the generosity of people like you. Thank you.
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