AGENDA
Next meeting on first Wednesday of the month
February 2013 at Marie Curie Hospice 2 - 4 pm
Next meeting on first Wednesday of the month
February 2013 at Marie Curie Hospice 2 - 4 pm
'Come with a frown, leave with a smile'
Reporter Sarah Swain from the Glasgow Evening Times attended one of our meetings.
She wrote. "You wouldn’t expect there to be any laughter in a room filled with cancer sufferers, but it is ringing through the boardroom at the Marie Curie."
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Our group's aim is to improve fellow cancer patients and their carer’s quality of life by sharing the experiences of those survivors who have or are living through it. It provides the opportunity to meet others, who are going through what you are, and helps tackle the feeling of personal isolation.
"Idle hands are the devils playthings. Lets fight it together."
We encourage active participation in regular light hearted banter, socialising, group meetings, fundraising, organised group events, and excursions etc.
The group's flyers are now available from -
Stobhill lung cancer clinic, Imaging Dept and Information desk. Macmillan Benefit Service Offices, Marie Curie Hospice, North Glasgow. Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Beatson and the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow. Plus Mary Dunlop of The Scottish Cancer Research UKs Roadshow.
We are presently designing a new A4 @ A3 coloured advertising poster.
Many thanks from our members to -
Dr Milroy and staff
Denise at the Info,
Phyllis Miller at Macmillan
Mary Dunlop of the Cancer Research Roadshow.
Marie Curie
Reporter Sarah Swain from the Glasgow Evening Times attended one of our meetings.
She wrote. "You wouldn’t expect there to be any laughter in a room filled with cancer sufferers, but it is ringing through the boardroom at the Marie Curie."
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?id=173025399454116&l=a2d405a530&pid=690273
Our group's aim is to improve fellow cancer patients and their carer’s quality of life by sharing the experiences of those survivors who have or are living through it. It provides the opportunity to meet others, who are going through what you are, and helps tackle the feeling of personal isolation.
"Idle hands are the devils playthings. Lets fight it together."
We encourage active participation in regular light hearted banter, socialising, group meetings, fundraising, organised group events, and excursions etc.
The group's flyers are now available from -
Stobhill lung cancer clinic, Imaging Dept and Information desk. Macmillan Benefit Service Offices, Marie Curie Hospice, North Glasgow. Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Beatson and the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow. Plus Mary Dunlop of The Scottish Cancer Research UKs Roadshow.
We are presently designing a new A4 @ A3 coloured advertising poster.
Many thanks from our members to -
Dr Milroy and staff
Denise at the Info,
Phyllis Miller at Macmillan
Mary Dunlop of the Cancer Research Roadshow.
Marie Curie
Asda Robroyston
Our fund raising buckets, cans, etc, have arrived, so we are now looking for volunteers including family and friends. I spoke to the extremely helpful Grace McIntyre from Asda Robroyston about fund raising. Grace deals with the stores Community Life Champion Scheme and she will be putting the groups case forward to the committee as a candidate for a place on their community project funding scheme. To help further publicise and spread the groups local awareness we also spoke about bag packing and access for our representatives to do other on site forms of fundraising. Grace will be attending our next meeting 1/8/2012, do come along, could be very interesting.
Our fund raising buckets, cans, etc, have arrived, so we are now looking for volunteers including family and friends. I spoke to the extremely helpful Grace McIntyre from Asda Robroyston about fund raising. Grace deals with the stores Community Life Champion Scheme and she will be putting the groups case forward to the committee as a candidate for a place on their community project funding scheme. To help further publicise and spread the groups local awareness we also spoke about bag packing and access for our representatives to do other on site forms of fundraising. Grace will be attending our next meeting 1/8/2012, do come along, could be very interesting.
Notification from the support groups CNS Lung Nurse Specialists
"Unfortunately due to changes to the service and a lack of resources, we have been advised that we can no longer facilitate the support group. It will still be possible for you to meet in the Boardroom and I am happy to book that up for you. It will be necessary for someone to sign for and collect the key for the boardroom from the office upstairs and to return it at the end of meetings". The group will have to discuss how to proceed.
Due to the above, the club appointed a Chairperson, Events Organiser and 2 Greeters to welcome new members.
People are now living longer with and after a cancer diagnosis, making survivorship clinics and programmes - as well as official guidelines and practices governing the care of survivors - an important emerging component of modern cancer care. It can occasionally be cured and even if diagnosed as incurable or inoperable, thanks to new constantly improving remarkable modern management treatments and techniques, there is an ever-growing increase in rates of quality survival. Our rather unconventional innovative self help website, contains a mixture of online fun and helpful advice, with as little pathos as pos. It has over the last year, been slowly growing in popularity and appears to be finding a niche. It is continuing to spread and increase its base. Comments received on the site are complimentary and appreciative, it makes the time taken on it, so worthwhile.
“What will be, will be”
Spending all of your wakened hours sitting or lying thinking about cancer and feeling down is a deadly combination that only ends in deep depression. Worrying and inactivity helps no one and changes nothing, only makes things so much worse. In my personal experiences during and after each of my diagnoses of terminal small cell in 1993, when I asked for and received the strongest chemo and radiotherapy available, and then non small cell in 2007 when I had surgery, lower lobectomy. I concentrated on being positive, keeping mentally busy and when possible doing daily resistance and light aerobic exercise throughout both my treatments which greatly improved my resilience and demeanor.
My stubborn determination to fight and beat this disease was an ongoing comfort to my family. I was my families bread winner and more worried about how they could possibly cope without me, than about my cancer. Thankfully my active and positive approach has twice favoured myself and my family. My philosophy throughout both cancer journeys has always been to develop and maintain a busy active outlook that left no time or room for negativity. Fortunately, I have also found it’s never too late to learn and find a life with purpose after cancer. Two years ago, I had never touched a computer in my life, now I do this site. I don't see myself as a Silver Surfer but thanks to my chemo, more of a Bald Boffin, that's my story and unlike my hair I am sticking to it. The fight goes on. Many thanks for your so kind comments and increasing site support.
Best wishes to all.
Robert Lowe
"Unfortunately due to changes to the service and a lack of resources, we have been advised that we can no longer facilitate the support group. It will still be possible for you to meet in the Boardroom and I am happy to book that up for you. It will be necessary for someone to sign for and collect the key for the boardroom from the office upstairs and to return it at the end of meetings". The group will have to discuss how to proceed.
Due to the above, the club appointed a Chairperson, Events Organiser and 2 Greeters to welcome new members.
People are now living longer with and after a cancer diagnosis, making survivorship clinics and programmes - as well as official guidelines and practices governing the care of survivors - an important emerging component of modern cancer care. It can occasionally be cured and even if diagnosed as incurable or inoperable, thanks to new constantly improving remarkable modern management treatments and techniques, there is an ever-growing increase in rates of quality survival. Our rather unconventional innovative self help website, contains a mixture of online fun and helpful advice, with as little pathos as pos. It has over the last year, been slowly growing in popularity and appears to be finding a niche. It is continuing to spread and increase its base. Comments received on the site are complimentary and appreciative, it makes the time taken on it, so worthwhile.
“What will be, will be”
Spending all of your wakened hours sitting or lying thinking about cancer and feeling down is a deadly combination that only ends in deep depression. Worrying and inactivity helps no one and changes nothing, only makes things so much worse. In my personal experiences during and after each of my diagnoses of terminal small cell in 1993, when I asked for and received the strongest chemo and radiotherapy available, and then non small cell in 2007 when I had surgery, lower lobectomy. I concentrated on being positive, keeping mentally busy and when possible doing daily resistance and light aerobic exercise throughout both my treatments which greatly improved my resilience and demeanor.
My stubborn determination to fight and beat this disease was an ongoing comfort to my family. I was my families bread winner and more worried about how they could possibly cope without me, than about my cancer. Thankfully my active and positive approach has twice favoured myself and my family. My philosophy throughout both cancer journeys has always been to develop and maintain a busy active outlook that left no time or room for negativity. Fortunately, I have also found it’s never too late to learn and find a life with purpose after cancer. Two years ago, I had never touched a computer in my life, now I do this site. I don't see myself as a Silver Surfer but thanks to my chemo, more of a Bald Boffin, that's my story and unlike my hair I am sticking to it. The fight goes on. Many thanks for your so kind comments and increasing site support.
Best wishes to all.
Robert Lowe
STOBHILL GROUPS FUNDRAISING
Robert did a table presentation at ASDA Robroyston and raised £53.00
Margaret did a sponsored silence for the Marie Curie and raised an amazing £400, she said it was the hardest 2 hours she has ever done.
Anne is doing a sponsored diet, also for Marie Curie.
A promotion in the foyer of the new building by Catherine and Robert raised £46 for RCLCF.
An all members balloon race raised £700 for Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
ASDA BAG PACKING at Robroyston, Penny, Gavin, Eric, Robert plus 2 RCLF staff and friends did 11.30 am till 1.30 pm and raised £400 for RCLCF
Margaret did a sponsored silence for the Marie Curie and raised an amazing £400, she said it was the hardest 2 hours she has ever done.
Anne is doing a sponsored diet, also for Marie Curie.
A promotion in the foyer of the new building by Catherine and Robert raised £46 for RCLCF.
An all members balloon race raised £700 for Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
ASDA BAG PACKING at Robroyston, Penny, Gavin, Eric, Robert plus 2 RCLF staff and friends did 11.30 am till 1.30 pm and raised £400 for RCLCF