A patient/service user

Following spontaneous fractures on 5 spinal vertebrae I was in extreme pain. Several weeks of increasing medication had little effect. I was offered a period in St Luke’s Hospice (Harrow) to try to arrive at a better regime of pain control. After 12 days I am home and in a much better condition. The care and attention shown to me reinforced the excellent reputation of our local hospice. During this time of coronavirus a hospital stay was out of the question. Thanks to the kindness and expertise of the doctors, nurses and others at St Luke’s I have been released from total pain and am in a much better place. Not cured of the breaks, of course, nor of my other underlying blood cancer, but life is worth living again. And that is a wonderful result.