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Thanks and Praise for Hospice Care

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Jenny McGlinchey’s June 2 letter praising the hospice nurse was indeed a gesture from the heart.

For the past 10 months, our household has been enveloped in the tender care of an array of professionals from hospice. I wouldn’t know which one to thank. They all deserve equal acknowledgment.

When my husband was discharged from the hospital, still gravely ill, our doctor suggested the hospice home care service for terminal cases.

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Thus we came under the umbrella of this service. They answer and respond to calls 24 hours a day. I’ve had a special nurse come in as late as 11 p.m., and I even had an urgent prescription delivered as late as 2 a.m.

Three times a week, a young lady comes to bathe him; three times weekly (even more when necessary), a professional nurse spends time with him and orders prescriptions after checking with our doctor. (These are always delivered the same day as ordered.) Weekly our assigned social worker spends time with us and eases us through our current problems.

Hospice provides us with varied hospital needs: bed, commode, walker, wheelchair, hospital bed tray and rubber wash basins, plus paper supplies, and other items as needed.

With hospice, we have no trips to the doctor, no medications to pick up. One call to hospice does it all. My heart overflows with gratitude for this continued service of the hospice home base, and the caring professionals who come to our home.

GINNIE RYDER

Laguna Niguel

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