Volunteer Spotlight: Charlotte Neary
How long have you
been a volunteer?
Three-and-a-half years.
What areas do you
work in/what sort of tasks do you do as a volunteer?
Patient care in the
Care Center, gardening, errands, and Tree of Life.
What made you decide
to become a volunteer?
Once I retired I felt like I needed to give back.
Why Angela Hospice?
As us older nurses start maturing we start realizing that there’s a need for
it. I have a sister-in-law who is a nurse, and she works in cardiac care.
Just in some of our talks it really got me thinking that
maybe hospice would be a good place to volunteer and give back. When I walked
in here, I found this place is blessed. It is holy. There is no other way to
describe it.
What is your favorite
part about volunteering?
I get to be the nurse that I learned to be 50
years ago. As the years have gone by nurses do more and more paper work…I think
here they do more patient and hands-on care than they do in the hospitals.
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Charlotte volunteers in the Angela Hospice Care Center.
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I’m just overwhelmed
sometimes just making a pot of coffee and having a family say, “Thank you.” Just
that kind of thing, like sitting there holding their hand, talking to a
patient.
A few months back we had a patient that had a lot of
difficulty breathing and I’d often sit with her, even after she’d gotten her
medication, until it started kicking in and helping. Her kids happened to come, but as
I was walking out they came up and said, “Thank you.” I feel like I’m
really…I’m hoping I’m really helping these patients.
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