My dad have given up

hi Im new here and looking for some support / advise. My dad was told 4 years ago he had max 12 months to live. He has esophagus cancer and liver however the liver one is secondary and has to this point never advanced ! he has a PEG feed line. ....

Help from Marie Curie - Mum has dementia

Hi, I am new to this forum and am just looking for any advice.  My Mum has been given 6-12 months to live due to many life limiting illnesses from heart failure to chronic kidney disease, diabetes and dementia.  The dementia was only diagnosed in May this year but following ....

Weeks to live

Hi. I have been diagnosed with advanced bladder cancer and now have either abscesses or infected necrotic cancer in my liver. Antibiotics have not worked and 2 weeks ago, I was moved to a hospice and given weeks rather than months to live. I feel weirdly at calm with this. ....

About to undergo surgery for breast cancer

Good morning, as stated in my subject matter, would very much appreciate communicating with anyone who has undergone surgery of this nature in the past for some practical advice and their opinion.   I am aged 79.Kind regards, ....

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Music in Hospices - WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK

Hi all! Hope you’re doing well. My name is Joe Cavalli-Price and I’m the Founder of Music in Hospices (www.musicinhospices.org.uk), an organisation founded to bring live music into Hospice and Palliative Care settings. A little bit of background: The organisation was set-up in memory of my mother Susan and Godmother Maria who ....

Hello, i apologize if that was mentioned before, but how to deal with yourself being so emotionally attached to someone? I get too attached by communication to patient or his family, if family member crying I get little emotional too, I want to help here, but I am emotionally sensitive, I love what I do, bug in professional way could I stay or should I change to caring for others?

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Depressed and struggling

My husband is 59 and has stage 4 lung cancer. He has gone from being a hardworking, active man to a shadow of who he was before. He is on oxygen 24/7 which has restricted life dramatically. I find it so hard watching what this disease is doing to him. ....

joe murphy

HI everyone, initially would like to know how to go about receiving end of life hospice care and the costs involved.  JOE47 ....

Local Lockdowns

Hi everyone, 

  As you may be aware local lockdowns are coming in across in some areas of the UK. There has been some confusion on what this means for visiting our families and if we are still ....