This is my mom, Wynne Schafer. It was in 2011 when we first learned about her diagnosis of COPD and only a year later, a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer. We knew the road we were about to travel together wasn’t going to be easy – my dad, her husband, had passed away in 2004 […]
A Daughter’s Journey through Love and Loss
Cowichan Hospice’s Hospice House Project Receives Provincial Support
…Cowichan Valley Hospice Society in Duncan has received $280,000 toward five new hospice beds to build capacity. Target completion date is March 2019. Click here to read the full article Executive Director, Gretchen Hartley, spoke with 89.7 Juice FM‘s Kasi Johnston about the vision for the Hospice center. Click here to listen!
Cowichan Hospice 2016/2017 Annual Newsletter
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Love Stories at the Heart of Hospice
article originally published in the Cowichan Valley Voice, December 2016. Love stories are at the heart of hospice stories. For Geoff Norris, his love story began in England during the second World War, when he saw a Canadian woman he’d met before, standing at a railway station. “…I went five stations past my stop and […]
