Your stories
At St Elizabeth Hospice it is our privilege to stand beside our patients as they come to terms with their diagnosis and as we develop the individual support plan they will need. Through medicine and therapy we restore hope, we ease pain, we give life purpose and we make life liveable at time when the prospect of a normal life can seem a distant prospect. Below are four patient stories that illustrate different ways we can help and demonstrate that together we will not let the prospect of death kill life for those living in Suffolk.
Ian
When you hear the word ‘hospice’ for the first time, you feel numb. You immediately think you’re going to die....
No Place Like Home Community Appeal
St Elizabeth Hospice launches £3m community appeal to help people die at home In Ipswich and east Suffolk only 1%...
Thank you
‘ …for being such a beacon of hope and support for us too when things were so distressing. Knowing you...
Let’s talk about dying
It was back in 1991 when Community Manager at St Elizabeth Hospice Sarah Godfrey was working as a newly qualified...
Pat and Ian
“My wife Pat may have been little in stature, but she had a big personality and attitude. When she fell...
Paul
Paul, 34, from Felixstowe, is living with rectal cancer; he recalls his admission to the inpatient unit at St Elizabeth...
Chelsea’s Story
Eighteen months ago, Chelsea Scarlett didn’t know anything about St Elizabeth Hospice. Like most people, she’d never known anyone who...
Zoe
My daughter is dying. Zoe wants to spend the little time she has left living; not waiting to die. She...