01 Apr Gertie was 83 when first referred to St. Michaels’s Hospice at Home service in Wolverhampton
Gertie was 83 when first referred to St. Michaels’s Hospice at Home service in Wolverhampton. She lived alone in an apartment and was completely independent, slowly mobile and coping well with her rectal cancer and stoma. She was known to her Macmillan nurse, who felt she needed extra support. Following the Hospice assessment, they agreed to ring her regularly and offer a weekly visit for support and company. She was well supported by her daughter Annie, who lived and worked in Birmingham,
