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