Amy was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 aged 24 and was certainly not keen on coming to the hospice when she was referred here for counselling following her first round of treatment.
Mum, Roma says: “Her understanding of a hospice was a place you went to die and nothing could convince her of anything different.”
Amy went on to live a full and active life over the next nine years, whilst also undergoing further courses of treatment. In 2015, however, she was told her cancer was no longer responding to treatment and she was now being given palliative care.
Struggling to get her pain under control, she was again referred to the hospice for specialist pain medication management. Amy agreed to be admitted – and this is when her relationship with the hospice changed.