Outcare Foundation

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We have created this section of the website for you to share your stories about caregivers, volunteers, nurses and doctors involved in palliative care. We invite you to share and to come back and read stories from others who have had an experience with palliative care. To submit your story click here.

The OutCare Foundation is grateful to the Robert Pope Foundation for the use of the image entitled Sparrow on this section of our website. The late Robert Pope was a Nova Scotia artist who is best known for a significant body of work exploring his experience of healthcare and healing as a cancer patient.



Submitted Stories

Patti Craven, March 6, 2012
In 2004 my 42 year old brother Bill was eating dinner and when he bit into a piece of meat his tooth broke and started to bleed. When he couldn’t get the bleeding to stop he went to the emergency room. A few... more
Janet Kuntz, February 6, 2012
Hospice Services My mother was a healthy and active 77 year old woman. She didn’t take medication, didn’t have any mobility issues, and seemed, to my family at least, to have boundless energy. On a... more
John T. Bradley, November 14, 2011
My involvement with the OutCare Foundation began in the year 2001. Denvil Brown spoke with me during one of our fundraising Streetdances in Navan. We were just getting ready for the Streetdance that year to... more
Thom Kearney, August 2, 2011
I read this poem at my father's funeral. He was a sailor. I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of... more