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After I was released from the hospital my temperature went up
It is very important in life to get prepared for its end.
We work to ensure a humanly life-end for patients with incurable diseases.
I could not be looked after at home anymore.
I came here first to plant daffodils.
The idea gripped me then at once.
Learning about a cancer diagnosis is very difficult
for patients and their families.
It is even more difficult when they say that the treatment has ended,
unfortunately metastasis has evolved or the tumor has recurred.
The patient will ask: What shall I do Doctor?
And physicians shrug their shoulders and cannot really say much.
This is when Hospice gets into focus.
This period is not the end of life yet.
Patients have numerous symptoms.
They suffer a lot of pain and become depressed.
This evokes further symptoms which need to be treated properly.
At Hospice physicians, nurses, psychologists, remedial gymnasts
and many volunteers help to soothe these symptoms.
Often in the homes of the patients, if that is possible.
We control pain, treat symptoms and provide medical care in their homes.
Doing all these free of charge.
I attend patients.
I have just arrived from one of them.
We show the way how to mobilize the patients,
occasionally check their medicine, help to compile their diet.
If we see that we have managed to slow down the deterioration of their state,
it is a great feeling of success.
The quality of life is in the focus of the Hospice aspect.
Now I can go to the rink and watch an ice hockey game.
Last Sunday I could climb the stairs to the first floor in the stadium.
The Budapest Hospice House is the background to hospice care at home.
This is a 10 bed inpatient unit where we receive and accommodate patients,
whose symptoms could not be controlled at home.
We can provide high quality, intensive care here.
In case of patients with brain tumor or with metastasis in the brain,
derangement is a very difficult symptom for the families to cope with.
These patients need to get infusions which cannot be given at home.
Another reason for accommodating patients is that
family members get exhausted since this state requires a 24 hour care.
We often see that they are tired and worn out.
- How are you feeling? - I am very well, thank you.
- The most important is that I am without pain now. - That is great.
I could not be looked after at home anymore.
I cannot stand up, cannot wash alone, I need to use diapers.
I am totally incapable.
They can not look after me at home anymore.
I think care and the nursing staff get a greater emphasis here
than at an active hospital ward.
Around a 100 trained volunteers help the work of Hospice Foundation.
I do all care taking work around the House.
I keep contact with energy providers, shovel snow if needed, mow the lawn.
I came here first to plant daffodils.
That's when the initiation gripped me.
When I saw what miraculous things happen here.
They sit down at the patients' bed and read for them, they walk with them,
talk to them. This all comforts the patients, eases their distress.
I can contribute to the success of the Hospice initiation in a way that
I propagate it to raise the public awareness in the issue.
So the information can reach more and more people
about how the institute can help in their problems.
This is my part of the work.
Hospice care is free of charge for the patients and their families.
National Health Insurance Fund covers the 80% of the service cost
of home care and the 50% of the inpatient care.
It means that we need to raise 60 million Forints each year
to maintain operations.
We can get this amount from donations
and from offerings of the 1 % of the income tax.
I would like to encourage everyone to offer their 1% to Hospice,
because if there is any NGO that deserves this support, it is Hospice.