“Don’t mention hospice to me, I don’t want to hear the word hospice.”
When the subject of palliative care was first broached to Brenda Foster by a district nurse, her initial reaction was to recoil from the idea.
But when the 79-year-old, who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, met her nurse Craig Barton at the Wigan and Leigh Hospice, all that changed.
“He’s wonderful,” Mrs Foster said.
Mrs Foster, from Atherton, now credits Mr Barton with prolonging her life.
“I could quite easily have given up, but he won’t let me,” she said.
Mr Barton said it was an “honour” to be Mrs Foster’s nurse and that his job was “rewarding”, but at times, emotional.
