Charity vote

[ShangriLaTroubl]

felt the need to bump this thread up

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Well....I hadn't heard anything about this lately so I thought I'd bump this up. Are we still thinking about this?

I think so.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by ShangriLaTroubl

What are some of the things you do, other than just counseling and spending time with the patient and/or their family. And if you dont mind me asking, in your opinion with extra donations would more could your organization do?

I'm sorry- I didn't see this until today. Let's see, as a patient volunteer, I do almost anything a family needs. I run errands, pick up prescriptions, fix dinner, feed the patient, read to the patient, SING with the patient (ohgod I'm a terrible singer), hang out with the family, help change (adult) diapers- you name it. You are assigned to a family, and then you stay with them until that patient dies. Hospice is free to anyone, and the medications cost under a dollar (we're talking morphine, ativan, all the good expensive stuff). The only paid employees are social workers, nurses, and administrative. Medicare provides almost all of Hospice's funding, along with charity fundraisers, etc.

I can call my chapter and ask them what they would do with our money. I'd prefer not to do that until I knew we were going to choose them.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Hospice.

Let's remember the elderly and the dying. Not everyone on Hospice is old.

That's very true.

[jannieC]

Just bumping this up again so that whoever makes the final decision can let me know when to talk to my director at Hospice.

[wondergirl9847]

What are we gonna do? Hospice is the one we chose, right?

[ShangriLaTroubl]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

What are we gonna do? Hospice is the one we chose, right?

Looks like it, I guess now the only thing is deciding how we are gonna organize it right

Chris

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by ShangriLaTroubl

Looks like it, I guess now the only thing is deciding how we are gonna organize it right

Chris

Anyone can PM me (woo hoo- I may get a PM) and let me know if you all want to do it through my Hospice. By the way, I just met with my new patient last night. She's 93 and has breast cancer. She is adorable! I brought her some chocolate cake b/c her family said she loves sweets and isn't on a restricted diet. It's always a little awkward the first visit, but eventually the patient and family and volunteer all get used to each other and it's all good. My very first patient's family still keeps in contact with me
(I initially typed "my very first patient still keeps in contact with me"...wouldn't THAT be weird?) and the rest of her caregivers.