Tonight's News

After a day of intensive care and support from the local G.P. service Macfarlane is booked in for a wee stint of palliative care assessment at the wonderful St Culumba's Hospice. It'll be a bit of a home from home for him with the added extra of a fabulous view across his much loved Firth of Forth. He's expected to be there initially for a few days, but perhaps longer if deemed best.
Patient empowerment is at the heart of St Columba's philosophy. He is content, at last, to be going to a place where his complex, idiosyncratic symptoms and serious pain relief are managed with his understanding and consent.
There's an ambulance calling for him tomorrow morning and as soon as possible we'll give you an update.
In the meantime if you'd like reassurance about the place and how good it is, or just know a little more about the work they do, visit -

http://www.stcolumbashospice.org.uk

"The role of the Hospice in modern times is to remind us that any act of caring enriches the life of the person giving and the life of the person receiving – a basic truth that is all too often overlooked in our materialistic world."
(A Patient 1991)