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anything to worry about, but it turned
out that it was cancerous.

Since then I’ve been here, there and
everywhere, in and out of hospital,
meeting doctors and nurses. Eventually I
decided to ask my doctor to refer me to

the Hospice, I’m so glad I did. I’m fortu-
nate that I feel pretty ok, but I do need
help now and then. That’s why I feel so
reassured to be supported by staff from

Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice.
To be honest, they’re more like friends
than staff, and I am treated with care,
compassion and respect.

You might be surprised to find that the
Hospice is full of life. Yes, there might
A little about me be tears, but there’s also an awful lot of

laughter too. Being involved with the
Hospice means that you are making the
2020 marks the year of the nurse, I’m proud to say that I was most of the time you have - whether that
one for 36 years, both with the army and on civvy street. I’ve is days, weeks, months or years.

lived and worked all over; the Falklands, Germany, Afghani-
stan, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, for the last 20 years I’ve Every year Greenwich & Bexley Commu-
lived in Plumstead.
nity Hospice touches thousands of lives
and impacts on people in so many aston-
I’ve always been really healthy, I’ve been active my whole life. ishing ways. What better way to hear
About 5 years ago I felt a lump in my breast, I went to see my about these achievements than through
doctor straight away. She was pretty confident that it wasn’t
the eyes of someone who has experi-
enced them first hand ... me!