Creative Healing Places

<p>When the doctors told my husband Your father has brain cancer our world went dark. Harry</p><p>was a bright light in our family-funny out-going and always ready with bear hugs and jokes.</p><p>We were filled with questions.</p><ul><li>Will he survive?</li><li>Will he suffer?</li><li>What treatments and medications are available?</li><li>How can we help him with whatever lies ahead?</li></ul><p>This heartwarming book shares the silver lining legacy inspired by accompanying Harry during</p><p>his nine-month battle with the disease that ultimately claimed his life. That legacy became the</p><p>Healing Environments Program we created for the Saint Mary Medical Center in Langhorne</p><p>Pennsylvania in 2007. This program relied on the creative abilities of off-site crafters who</p><p>generously volunteered their time and talents creating handmade items of comfort which were</p><p>offered as gifts to seriously ill patients by on-site volunteers.</p><p>Over nine years we visited more than 26000 patients gifting them with 9329 afghans shawls</p><p>and quilts plus 18250 additional comfort items such as neck roll pillows mastectomy pillows</p><p>and hair-loss caps.</p><p>It is my sincere desire that you find within these pages an awakening to ways you can reach out</p><p>in compassion to help those you know and love or to provide comfort to perfect strangers. I also</p><p>hope you discover some answers to the question What can I possibly do to help? And in</p><p>finding those answers may you also be blessed to discover your own 'healing place.'</p><p><br></p><p>It is said a candle loses nothing of its brilliance by lighting another candle. As you offer yourself</p><p>in service to others some aspect of your life will inevitably be healed.</p>