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Hospice Care Week & #HatsOn4CPC

October 10, 2018
Lucy Watts MBE
advocate, awareness, awareness week, Blog, BLOG, care, charity, children, death, Dr Tedros, end of life, grateful, health, healthcare, hospice, Hospice UK, ICPCN, illness, legacy, life expectancy, life limiting, life threatening, NCPC, neuromuscular disorder, NHS, pain, palliative, quality of life, The J's Hospice, Together for short lives, WHO, WHPCA, World Health Organisation, young people
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This week it’s Hospice Care Week. All of you know I am a palliative and hospice care advocate having been a beneficiary of such services since I was 17. You all know my story, being born with health problems and…

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2016 – Reflecting On A Year Of Incredible Highs and Terrible Lows

December 30, 2016
Lucy Watts MBE
assistance dog, Blog, BLOG, Buckingham Palace, dog, family, grateful, health, investiture, life limiting, MBE, Molly, NCPC, neuromuscular disorder, NHS, quality of life, sepsis, speech, TweetChat
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Customary to me, this blog reflects on what has been a very mixed year. Incredible highs, the highest of highs, and yet deep, dark, terrible lows. How can a year be so bipolar? So good, yet so bad, all at…

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Six Months Ago – Looking Back On This Year

December 9, 2016
Lucy Watts MBE
assistance dog, award, Blog, BLOG, Buckingham Palace, central line, deterioration, disability, dog, health, investiture, life limiting, MBE, Molly, NCPC, neuromuscular disorder, quality of life, sepsis, speech
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Six months ago today I went to Buckingham Palace to receive my MBE from His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales. Six months since I became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at the age…

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The Big Conversation: Thinking about dying won’t make it happen! – Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016

May 12, 2016
Lucy Watts MBE
awareness week, Blog, BLOG, death, deterioration, digital legacy, Dying Matters, end of life, family, grief, health, hospice, illness, life limiting, NCPC, palliative, quality of life, Rest in Pixels
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Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016The Big Conversation We all have wishes, preferences and we know what we want. We make our own choices, we decide what we do and when, we make our own plans for our lives, we choose which…

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Children’s Hospice Week 2015

May 10, 2015
Lucy Watts MBE
award, BLOG, Blog, charity, children, Crufts, disability, health, hospice, illness, life limiting, life threatening, mother, NCPC, palliative, parliament, quality of life, The J's Hospice, Together for short lives, young people
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Children’s Hospice Week, 11-17th May 2015, has almost arrived! Join us in making a difference to the lives of life-limited and life-threatened children and young people and their families in the UK and all over the world. As Ambassador (‘Young…

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Overcoming Obstacles

August 23, 2014
Lucy Watts MBE
assistance dog, Blog, BLOG, Daniel Poulter, disability, Dreams Come True, Friends for Life, grief, health, health outcomes forum, hope, life expectancy, NCPC, PORT, The J's Hospice, Together for short lives, TPN, transition
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It is hard to overcome an illness when it imposes so many limitations and treatments/problems demand such a lot of time throughout the day (and night). Some days it seems impossible. I’ve been ill for six years and eight months…

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Difficult Conversations

February 7, 2014
Lucy Watts MBE
Blog, BLOG, death, deterioration, family, life expectancy, life limiting, life threatening, NCPC, nurse, quality of life, The J's Hospice, Together for short lives
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I was asked to write a piece by the National Council for Palliative Care and Together for Short Lives about whether young people with life limiting conditions want to talk about their end of life, and if so, why, where, with who and how, and if…

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