Medi Home Health & Hospice in Petersburg, Richmond, and Charlottesville seeks to ensure all our patients in Virginia find relief from pain due to life-limiting illnesses. You can help another find comfort and solace by volunteering your time for a patient of hospice. We want you to feel appreciated, educated, energized, and informed!
Terminally ill patients in our communities of Richmond and Petersburg, VA deserve the best, most compassionate care in their final days. Patient families also deserve attention and care when going through the the lose of a loved one. Medi Home Health & Hospice continues that attention and care for the family after their loved one has passed away. Our volunteer led memory bear program provides a special way for families to process their loss and reflect on more positive times experienced with someone they loved. Sewers take clothing of patients provided by family members and create unique stuffed bears. These memory bears can be positive, lasting mementos in the lives of surviving friends and family. Take a look below at some of the delightful craft work by one of Medi's talented volunteers.
Two bears for two sisters made from their mother's green and pink robes.
Nine little bears for nine grandchildren to remember their grandmother.
One paisley printed bear with nine little bears.
If you enjoy sewing or begin visiting patients as a volunteer for Medi Hospice, please contact our office for more information as to how you can get started making a special difference in others' lives today!
Heading home can be a revitalizing, humbling experience for those who do not often visit the place in which they grew up. For me, home is in Virginia. I look out my window and am thankful for the bright colors of the leaves changing. Hues of yellows, oranges, greens, browns signify the coming of the Fall season in my home state. The air outside has a nip of cold that you can feel coming as sure as winter, but the temperature outside is a comfortable 65. Home to me at this time of year reminds me of the Harvest as many celebrate holidays like Halloween or All Saints' Day.
For others going home or being home is not such a pleasant experience. Memories of pain, loss or suffering can burden some minds who find it difficult to be at home.
In honor of the idea of returning home now or in the coming months with the holidays, I share with you a song that Medi Hospice Chaplain Erin shared with the hospice staff in efforts to provide a moment of reflection and peace. The song is entitled "Half Acre" by Hem. It also happens to be one of my favorites. Enjoy.
Half Acre
I am holding half an acre
Torn from the map of Michigan
And folded in this scrap of paper
Is a land I grew in
Think of every town you've lived in
Every room, you lay your head
And what is it that you remember?
Do you carry every sadness with you
Every hour your heart was broken
Every night the fear and darkness
Lay down with you
A man is walking on the highway
A woman stares out at the sea
And light is only now just breaking
So we carry every sadness with us
Every hour our heart were broken
Every night the fear and darkness
Lay down with us
But I am holding half an acre
Torn from the map of Michigan
I am carrying this scrap of paper
That can crack the darkest sky wide open
Every burden taken from me
Every night my heart unfolding
My home
