2023 Women Swimmin' for Hospicare supporting Hospicare & Palliative Care Services
Emily Sanders Hopkins
In memory of my beloved Grandmama, Katherine Sanders, I'm raising money to help provide wonderful care to sick and dying people in our area, plus the emotional support and respite their family and friends need.
Emily Sanders Hopkins
In memory of my beloved Grandmama, Katherine Sanders, I'm raising money to help provide wonderful care to sick and dying people in our area, plus the emotional support and respite their family and friends need.
Women Swimmin' for Hospicare is a community event that raises money for Hospicare & Palliative Care Services.
Near the end of Grandmama's life, when Mom and her siblings were at the house, caring for her and worrying, they called the local hospice in Princeton, West Virginia and were visited by a kindly nurse and given helpful literature about death and dying. That booklet really comforted my mom, because it offered expert, calm descriptions of the dying process, what to expect, what it might mean (our mortality), how it might feel, what the stages of dying are.
I'm "Going the Distance" for Hospicare to raise money for a nonprofit agency that relies on community support. Hospicare is also my employer, and I know firsthand from my weekly volunteer shift in the Hospicare Residence how wonderful our nurses and aides are and how grateful and relieved families are to have such a beautiful, well-staffed, peaceful place to take their loved ones when staying at home is no longer possible.
Every day between now and August 12, I'll be writing a new, original one-page short story, essay, or poem.
To read them, go to www.emilywritesback.substack.com
To DICTATE WHAT THE NEXT DAY'S STORY/POEM/ESSAY WILL BE ABOUT (THEME), BE THE FIRST THAT DAY TO DONATE $40 OR MORE! Fun!
Me, holding a "for" sign in the lake last winter
Last winter, when I first started working at Hospicare, we did a photoshoot in the freezing lake to drum up excitement about Women Swimmin', which was six months away.