Having seen the way LOROS staff cared for her husband in the weeks before his death, Sue Evans has nothing but praise for the charity. Grahame Evans spent a month at the Groby Road hospice before he died on November 21 last year, aged 67. In that month the care and attention he received was “just incredible,” said Sue, who lives in Birstall. She said: “They would spend an hour with him every morning, making him comfortable, and nothing was ever too much trouble. Grahame, a father-of-one, was given just six months to live when he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in April 2007. “He survived for 20,” says Sue, proud of her husband’s spirit. Doctors were unable to control the cancer and it eventually spread to his brain. Sue, 62, said: “I’m just so full of praise for LOROS; it’s unbelievable. The care they gave to him in that month, and to me and my daughter... well, there are no words to describe it. I used to stay over sometimes and they let me have a room and I was there for a week. He had to be in a bay because, by the end, he had a brain tumour. He knew what people were saying but he couldn’t talk back. He wanted to stay there, even though they gave him the option of going home – he knew he was secure there. He felt like he was in safe hands.”
Sue spoke about her experiences at the hospice to support our Leicester Mercury LOROS Appeal, which aims to raise £450,000 towards the cost of a new extension with 11 single rooms at the hospice. She said: “I just really want to say my few words for LOROS. I’d be there every day and they never complained. The way they look after patients is just amazing. I wouldn’t have known what to do for Grahame at home. They did so much.”
We have already raised £50,000 towards our appeal thanks to a donation left in a former patient’s will. We aim to raise as much as possible by Christmas.