We are looking for Client Support Volunteers to join our team!
Graduating Volunteer Training class of Fall 2021
We are excited to announce dates for the mandatory 30 hours volunteer training, running 10 weeks in the evening starting April 12th. This training will take place in-person. Information/orientation sessions will take March 22nd at 6:30pm via Zoom and March 29th at 6:30 in-person. Please register for one of these sessions by calling Carolyn at 705-742-4042 or emailing cparkes@hospicepeterborough.org.
We are so thrilled to be able to welcome new volunteers!
After losing both parents, days apart, the Lockyer family shares story of how Hospice supported their family and aims to ensure supports continue to be available to all
Susan and Wayne
Our parents shared a great love story – one that lasted more than half a century and ended with each of them dying of a broken heart.
Many of you might know our father Wayne Lockyer – he co-owned and operated Lockyers’ Garden Centre and was a local minor hockey coach – and our mother Susan Lockyer who worked for many years at the Mapleridge Shoppers Drug Mart and was well-known for her kind soul and spectacular smile.
They were happily married for 52 years and they loved, played and worked with passion all while raising us three children.
It was devastating when Mom was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in her 70s but she maintained a positive attitude as she prepared for surgery.
It wasn’t long, however, before we received the gut-wrenching news that Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer and only had a couple of months to live. Mom postponed her surgery to be by his side when he was admitted to the wonderful care of Hospice Peterborough.
We have so much gratitude for the care we received – as a whole family – when Dad stayed in the residence. Mom stayed with him 24-7 and staff even brought in a double-sized hospital bed so they could sleep beside each other. Staff catered to their favourite foods (Dad was a picky eater!), provided Mom with a shoulder to cry on as well as professional grief support and a nurse even played guitar in the room so Mom and Dad could dance. We are fortunate to have an amazing local hospital but these are things that were only possible at Hospice.
As Dad’s health continued to decline, Mom had an increasingly hard time. One day, Mom couldn’t catch her breath – Hospice nurses called an ambulance for her and took care of her until she was taken to hospital to be treated. About a week later Mom was rushed to hospital from home when she suffered cardiac arrest and was put on life support with stress cardiomyopathy, also known as Broken Heart Syndrome.
After making the decision to take her off of life support, our family felt raw as we gathered at the hospital, held each other tight and said our goodbyes. My father’s heart was broken. The following day, Dad was a little less responsive. The morning after that, he told us he had had a conversation with Mom and felt ready to go; he died 15 minutes later. You never know what the future holds and we had no idea that this is how our parents’ story would unfold. What we do know is that we’re forever grateful to Hospice Peterborough for being so loving, kind and thoughtful with our whole family and for treating Mom and Dad with such respect, compassion and empathy.
In gratitude, we used our family business RoadSide Greetings and Designs as a fundraiser this year and raised funds so Hospice can keep offering all of its programs and services free of charge whether it’s the end-of-life residence, grief counselling, day groups or community education.
In this season of giving, we ask that you please join us today by making your own donation.
We would like to inform you of Hospice Peterborough’s plans to respond to the risks associated with COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
We have developed a 4-level
response plan that takes into account escalating risks and contingency
precautions to limit the infection of this virus. At all times, we are being
guided by the expert advice being provided by local, provincial, and national
public health authorities and Hospice Palliative Care Ontario and will continue
to monitor and assess next steps and precautions in the coming days and weeks.
The health and safety of
clients, residents, family members, volunteers, staff, partners, and community
members is our top priority. We are committed to support efforts to minimize
the spread of the virus through increased screening and limiting person to
person contact especially around people with already complex medical conditions.
Naturally, we appreciate the
implications and concerns this places on all aspects of our organization and
our stakeholders.
Effective immediately until further notice:
We have
cancelled all community groups, volunteer supports, presentations, and meetings.
We are
asking people NOT to come to our building unless their visit is essential.
We are
limiting visiting hours for our Hospice Residence. 9am-6pm on weekends and
11am-7pm on Weekdays (subject to change).
We are
actively screening everyone who enters our building.
We have
postponed our April 25th Gala and May 3rd Hike for
Hospice events until the fall 2020.
Please
follow the guidelines and precautions outline by the Peterborough Public Health
Unit (705-743-1000 x 401) or Telehealth Ontario
(1-866-797-0000) for more information/direction.
Hospice Peterborough remains committed to its mission in supporting individuals and families at end of life, through life-threatening illness and grief. We will monitor and adapt as the COVID-19 outbreak evolves. Please check our website for updated information.
We
appreciate your patience and understanding, and apologise for any inconvenience
this may cause.
Sincerely,
Hajni
Hos, Executive Director
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