Lisa Pitt
Agrovista UK St Nicholas Hospice Donations
Fundraising for St Nicholas Hospice
Story
<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving Page.</p>
<p>For 2012 Agrovista has nominated two charities, Macmillan Cancer Support and The Vic Dashwood Memorial Fund which raises funds for St Nicholas Hospice.</p>
<p>This page has been set up for any donations people would like to make for St Nicholas Hospice throughout the year and for any smaller events we may hold as a company.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vic’s Story</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Vic Dashwood Memorial Fund was set up in 2008 by his widow, Susan Whymark, after she pledged to try and raise £20,000 to fund a nurse on the Community Hospice Team at St. Nicholas Hospice in Bury St. Edmunds.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In early 2007 Vic developed a persistent cough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For several months he put it down to allergies or a cold he couldn’t shift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After attending his doctor and having a clear x-ray result, and as a life long non smoker, he was diagnosed with several non life threatening conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly on 5 December 2007 he was diagnosed with an undetected, advanced, inoperable lung cancer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm -6pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After 4 and half months of treatment Vic was told there was nothing more that could be done at which point he asked if he could go home to die</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm -6pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm -6pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At that time, other than district nurse input there was no other support available to allow him to return home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, with Vic’s determination to go home a care package was set up, including hospital bed, oxygen and all the medication and equipment needed to care for him at home and also because his mother-in-law had been the Nurse Manager of Priscilla Bacon Lodge Palliative Care unit in Norwich and was able to cope.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm -6pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm -6pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Under supervision from his GP and the district nurse team he died on 29 April 2008 in the privacy of his own home aged just 43.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had his family not been there to help him this would not have been possible.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Vic was an exceptional man and because of his generosity to others his wife felt she wanted to set up a fund in his memory and following the launch of the Community Team at St. Nicholas Hospice created for people in the same situation Vic found himself.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It costs £10,000 a day to run St. Nicholas Hospice who only get 22% funding from the government the rest is funded by charity.</span></p>
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