I am doing a fun walk for St Christophers Hospice (along with my 15month old son Oliver) in Memory of my mum, Jean, who sadly lost her brave battle with Motor Neurone Disease in May 2012.

My mum and myself were introduced to St Christophers Hospice a few months after her devastating diagnosis, we were given a specialist nurse who kept in constant contact with us and even came to visit us at home, her name was Anne,  she felt like a friend and it was great seeing her everytime she came around, my mum loved her.  St Christophers offered respite care for my mum as her illness progressed, and offered us a huge amount of support in dealing with the ever changing needs of her illness.

As my mum approached her final weeks, St Christophers Hospice took over my mums care, and they were absolutly brilliant, the nurses were so compassionate and caring, no task was ever too big for them, they made sure my mums quality of life was the best it could possibly be in the little time that she had left.   My mum was bed bound for months, they took her out in her bed to their garden to feel the fresh air, a sweet lady would visit my mum and play the guitar to her because she loved music, and the chaplain would pay her regular visits to pray with her which offered her lots of comfort. the chaplain, Rev dr Andrew goodhead also helped to arrange my sons baptism which took place in my mums room within the hospice, this was one of her last wishes and I know it meant the world to her. When I left the hospice for the night I was always safe in the knowledge that she was being cared for by nurses who treated her as if she was their own. 

During my mums illness and after her passing the hospice also offered me and my husband invaluable support, there was always someone that we could talk to, so that we never felt alone. Nearly a year on after my mums passing they still contact us now and again to see how we are getting on.

St Christophers helped us at a time where we felt alone and very lost, they showed us an immeasurable amount of compassion and care. We never just saw them as the local hospice, but as my mum used to say, they were a house of angels to us.

St Christophers Hospice offers free care to 2000 patients like my mum per year, and a further 850 patients that are cared for in their own home each day,  they have to raise 14 million pounds each year to enable them to do this.  I cannot express in words the difference they made to us. Please help :)

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