Bathurst Art and Health Program

If you are visiting the Bathurst Health Service a walk around the
corridors will introduce you to some of the art works in the building.
The Quiet Room Level 3, which looks over the foyer is the site of Paddy
Robinson's Glass Work. It's worth a visit. Paddy is from Sofala. Paddy
said 'I aimed to use my glass work to create a space that is relaxing,
calm and encourages quiet contemplation'. The frosted areas in the
work have been sandblasted which helps to create privacy. The design
represents a map of the local area.

Cheers
Christine

Christine McMillan
Art and Health Coordinator
Bathurst Health Service

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Orange cancer Council

Hi James

What a great site.

Keep up the great work!

Deb

Cancer Council is the leading cancer charity in New South Wales. Our mission is to defeat cancer.
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Forbes/Parkes: Breast Cancer Support Group

The Forbes/Parkes: Breast Cancer Support Group has been meeting since 1992 and has approximately 53 members. It provides an informal support network for people with Breast Cancer and their carer's.

Time: 12.00am

When: 1st saturday of the month

Where: Vandenberg Hotel, Forbes.

Contact: Yvonne Shaw 68524267

Companions Thru Cancer

The (Parkes) Companions Thru Cancer is a support/friendship group for people who have had a diagnosis of Cancer or are caring with someone with Cancer. The group meets twice a month and has approximately 30 members. Share a friendly atmosphere with other people who understand what it means to have or had cancer or care for someone with Cancer.

When: 1st Monday of the month and 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Where: Parkes Neighbourhood Centre
Currajong St.

Contact Person: Pam Moule 68623189

Bathurst Prostate Cancer Support Group

The Prostate Cancer Support Group aims to increase the awareness of issues surrounding Prostate cancer, it's treatment and control. The group also provides an opportunity for men to discuss their concerns with other men who understand what it means to have a diagnosis of Prostate Cancer.

The group provides information around issues related to men's health and well being. The group meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month at Daffodil Cottage (cnr of Howick and Commonwealth St's, Bathurst) at 5pm. If your interested in finding out more about what this group has to offer call Arthur Cheers on 63321369.

Bathurst Regional Cancer Support Group

The Bathurst Regional Cancer Support Group aims to provide support for those people with Cancer and those that care for them. The group offers a friendly place to to meet with other like minded people who understand what it means to have or to have been treated for cancer.

Time: 10.00am
When: 2nd Monday of each month
Where: Daffodil Cottage (Cnr Howick and Commonwealth St's, Bathurst
Contact Person: Gen Croaker on 63371109

Orange & District Gynae Cancer Group

The Orange & District Gynae Cancer Group aims to support those women (and their carers) diagnosed with a gyneacological cancer. The group meets every two months 10.30-am to 12.30 am at Anson Cottage Orange. To find out more about this group call Nancy Gordon on 63933381

Bathurst Voluntary Palliative Care Group

The Bathurst Voluntary Palliative Care Group This group's aim is to support those people with a life threatening condition and their carers. The group offers respite in peoples homes and members visit palliative patients in hospital and aged care facilities. The group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 4 pm. At Daffodil Cottage cnr of Howick and Commonwealth Sts, Bathurst.

Members of the group participate in activities which supports the work done at Daffodil Cottage. To find out more about the group give Janine Donnelly a call on 63371634 or Glenda Bosanquet on 63371634

Orange & District Breast Cancer Support Group

The Orange & District Breast Cancer Support Group aim is to support those people with breast cancer and/or their carers. It is for people who would like the support of a group of people who understand what it means to have breast cancer or support someone with breast cancer. The group has been meeting for the past 16 years presently there are about 60 members.

The group meets the 1st wednesday of the month (except January) at 4.00pm at Anson Cottage (Orange) for more details contact Libby Douglass on 63384069, mobile 0411518266, ldouglas@csu.edu.au

Orange Bereavement Support Group

The Orange Bereavement Support Group meets on the 1st Wednesday of each month at 2.00pm at the Orange Base Hospital Chapel. Here they light candles in rememberance of lost loved ones. After talking to the hospital Chaplain they go to Anson Cottage (A short walk from the hospital) and have afternoon tea. This group offers an opportunity for people who have experienced the death of some body close to them to talk with people who understand how they feel. If you are interested in finding out more about the group contact Lorraine Flanagan on 63628610

Orange Cancer Support Group

The Orange Cancer Support Group meets at Anson Cottage every 3rd Monday of the month. 4.30pm to about 6.00pm. The group offers informal support to people who have cancer or have been treated for cancer. It also welcomes their carers.

The group offers an opportunity for people to meet with people who understand what it means to have had or have cancer. If you are interested in finding out more about the group contact
Joan Heffer on 63623551 or Margaret Kingham 63665080

Correct Email Address for Posts

wavingnotdrowning1.power@blogger.comThis is the email address for posting to the blog (Note: a change from the one on the flyer). If you click on the link it should work automatically.Labels: Christine.

Commonwealth Repite & Carelink Centre

Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres are information centres for older people, people with disabilities and those who provide care and services. Centres provide free and confidential information on community aged care, disability and other support services available locally, interstate or anywhere within Australia.

You can contact your nearest Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre by phoning a national telephone number Freecall™ 1800 052 222*. Anyone can contact a Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre and to date Centres have assisted over 500,000 people.

When you contact a Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre the staff at the Centre will discuss your situation with you, and give you information about the local services available or those you may benefit from. However, if you would like to search for services in your area yourself you can use our online search facility.Welcome to the Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre Website

National Association for Loss and Grief

The NALAG NSW Inc Dubbo Chapter offers ...Support - both group and one on one support is offered at no cost through a referral process. To access the service please request a referral form by writing email to mailto:info@nalag.org.au?subject=Referral.Education - regular Loss & Grief training addressing many areas.Good Grief Camps - promoting grief education, resilience building for young people are very much in demand.Healing Days - addressing the needs of community after a tragedies and disasters.Seasons for Growth - peer support programs for children, adolescents and adults are conducted by our NALAG volunteers.Response to Trauma - a team of NALAG members have completed training and regularly respond on request to local and distant communities.

Palliative Care Gala night and Professional Development Forum

Hi

I've just had an amazing couple of day's. I attended the NSW Palliative Care Gala night on 28th. It was held in the Holme building at Sydney University. It was a bit weird for me because it brought back powerful memories of me as a 20year old wandering around (1978-1980) the university with not much of clue trying to complete a fine art's degree. It just didn't happen I completed 2 years and dropped out. But so many good memories of friends and doing really silly things, fun things. Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all!!

The Holme building has that old style university feel, it reminds you of the "Hogwarts" panaled walls covered by old dark oil paintings ( Isaw a John Passmore which I liked) Panaled walls. On the back wall was a huge mural. It reminded me of Michelangelo's last Judgement, (without the judgement, angels, demon's and God) all about human progess through academic achievement despite all the hardship etc. It was a very grand setting.

James Valentine was the compare and he was very entertaining! He payed for a little while in his jazz ensemble. Linda Hanson (one of the organiser's) sang a beutiful "Georgia" The minister of Health was there John Della Bosca. He said that he had a 1954 Les Paul and that he should of brought it all long! I can't remember alll the categories for the awards but Dr Richard Chi the director of Sacred Heart Hospice in Darlinghurst got the award for innovation in Palliative Care.If you are really interested I think if you go to the Palliative Care NSW site (It's one of our links) they will probably post more details. It was lovely to see that Claudia Guigni and Sue Netherwood from our area nominated.

The education day was one of the best I'd attended it started off with a talk by Dr Frank Brennan on the role of Palliative Care in Renal medicine. We had talks from other prominant physicians, Pain Specialists, Intensive Care, interesting research on the impact of Loss and Grief on Palliative Care Staff, Paediatric Palliative Care, Pain Management in Patients with drug dependency and Advances in the treatment of Brain Metastases. It really highlighted for me the range and diversity of issues areas of medicine that palliative Care intersects with. The issues surrounding death and dying really are everyone's concern. The day was a huge success thanks to Joan Ryan and her team for all the hard work organising the day.

I spoke to Janeen Folfani about the Blog and what we were hoping to do to develop and expand it's potential. Janeen who through PEPA funding helps to promote Paliative Care through education, placements for health professionals and other events which promote the understanding of Palliative Care. She has agreed to help fund our writing workshops. That is so exciting!!

I better wrap, it's Saturday morning and my wife is trying to get everyone organised, house tidy so we can get on with the day. I'd love to hear from anyone interested in the blog, Christine has made it so easy to post a blog just click on the link! And if you get a chance have a go at completing the evaluations it will only take a few minutes and it will give us an indication as to how the blog is working for people. I've got to go.

Look forward from hearing from you!

James

wavingnotdrowning1.power@blogger.com

wavingnotdrowning1.power@blogger.com

This is the email address for posting to the blog (Note: a change from the one on the flyer). If you click on the link it should work automatically.

Blood Cancer Chat Group

The Blood Cancer Chat Group is located in Forbes and is run by Claire Whatmore ph 68563146. It meets every 4 months for afternoon tea from 2-4pm. The next meeting is scheduled for 4th July.
Claire describes the group as an informal gathering of people who have experienced a blood Cancer (Care's and Patients) and would like a place were they can share their experiences with a group of supportive and caring people.

Workshops

Hi ALL,
I would really like to get some workshops running with the local palliative care community and the users of this blog page. The workshops could help people tell their stories, teach the photographing and videoing of stories, show how to use the blog and help people to enjoy the time they spend together.
Do you have any ideas for workshops?

Christine
Art and Health Coordinator
Bathurst Health Service

James

Hi

It's a cold and foggy day to day. Christine and I are very excited about the potential of Waving Not Drowning in the last 24 hours 32 people have visited the site and we can't wait to actually start to see the posts arrive!

Communication can be empowering especialy when your communicating to people who understand what you are going through and who have the information and understanding that you might need to help you through a difficult time!

At the moment Christine and I are collating all the contacts of the support groups in our area ie the Southern and Eastern clusters of the Greater Western Area Health Service (which is quite an undertaking given the fact the area encompasses places such as Totenham, Tullamore, Lake Cargelligo in the southern area to areas such as Oberon, Blayney in the eastern end.) We hope that getting this information all in one place online will make it easier for people to access the groups in their area .

If you can think of any groups in your area that you think people may be interested in let us know about them, you never know it might be just the group that someone needs to know about.

Today I am off to Sydney, the NSW Palliative Care group is having a Gala dinner, then on Friday I'm attending a Palliative Care education day. It's a very busy time.

Over the last 3 days the Bathurst Palliative Care team (Nurses and Volunteer's have been manning a Palliative Care Awareness table at Stockland Mall in Bathurst. It was a very interesting and rewarding experience for all involved. People stopped and were able to talk about situations that were troubling them. One person's relative was dying in another Australian state and she was very unsure about what she could expect from her family, we were able to talk to her about our experiences of similar situations and provide her with reading material and other contacts. After talking to us for about 30 mins she felt alot more able to deal with her difficult situation. The table was so successful that we intend to run it once a month for 3 hours. Once we have organised I will post the details on the blog.

Hope to hear from people soon


Have a wonderful Day


James

CanAssist: Cancer Assistance Network

Financially supporting people in our community suffering from cancer.
How can we help?
Funds are available from CanAssist (Bathurst) to provide assistance for:

• equipment hire/purchase
• dietary aids
• travel and accommodation expenses while receiving treatment
• purchasing pharmaceuticals

If you wish to discuss how you or one of your relatives might seek such financial support, you should approach a health care professional or social worker at

Bathurst Health Service 6339 5311

Daffodil Cottage 6330 5347

Centrelink 6334 8412

Patients assisted by CanAssist remain anonymous and all requests for help are treated confidentially.

Need more information: June Turner 6337 1146