Gill Rose
"So far I have managed to raise £677 for Countess Mountbatten Hospice in Southampton. My aim is still to raise £1,000. Many thanks to those of you who have already sponsored me, I really appreciate it.
The CMH Hospice Charity is working closely with Southampton University Hospitals Trust and the 2 Primary Care Trusts (Hampshire & Southampton City) to build the future Specialist Palliative Care Service. The charity are being asked to contribute an increasing amount to the core costs of running the service as well as all the extras which mean so much to patients and families.
The charity has just appointed a full-time fundraiser, has refurnished the Day Room and Overnight Relatives Room. It is planning to update TVs in the siderooms. The Day Care Service is funded by the Charity.
My husband, Chris, spent two separate weeks in the hospice before he died. The staff and volunteers who work there were great with him and treated him with the utmost care and dignity. It was those little extras that are funded by the charity that made such a difference to his time there and to me, particularly in his last week of life.
Unfortunately cancer touches the lives of so many of us and we all take it for granted that the best care and facilities will be available if we or our family or friends ever need them, but they won't be there in the future if the CMH Hospice Charity doesn't continue to raise money.
If you haven't already sponsored me, please go to my fundraising page at http://www.justgiving.com/gillrose where you can sponsor me online or catch me at a Monday or Thursday night training session where I will have my sponsorship form.
I will be jumping out of that aeroplane on Saturday 9th August - that is VERY soon and I am VERY scared!!!
Many thanks
Gill Rose"