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St Catherine’s

helped me start

living again

When Georgina In 2022, mum Georgina, from really saw me as a whole person. He

Clark arrived at Penwortham, was diagnosed with always asked about the family and we
neuro-endocrine tumours that had
managed to have a laugh.
St Catherine’s, spread to her liver. In great pain from
she was worried the liver metastases, Georgina was “I’ve also started seeing Dr Carolyn,
a psychologist at St Catherine’s, who
referred to St Catherine’s for pain
about what management. Our Medical Director/ has helped me enormously to stay
coming to Consultant in Palliative Medicine, positive and given me advice on how
to live well with stress.
Dr Andrew Fletcher supported Georgina.
the Hospice
would mean. “Dr Fletcher was wonderful. “St Catherine’s helped me start
living again.
When I said I didn’t want to be at
the Hospice, he said, ‘Let’s change
This was all the that’, Georgina said. "The treatment has given me a new lease
of life. Now, with my pain under control, I
more poignant as “We tried many different combinations of feel positive and I’m living a fuller life.
Georgina, 57, is pain relief until we found one that suited. “I love painting Mandala stones for
a retired Nurse. “Everyone was so lovely – from relaxation, reading and drawing, and have
the nurses to the gardener. Dr Fletcher even just taken a holiday with my family.”

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