I'm resending this message, because it seems as
though the attachment didn't successfully attach
the first time. Contact Mike if you are
interested in helping out.
Good morning everyone.
>From time-to-time we send out SOS's when we have
a patient-family
with respect to whom we are having a difficult
time finding lodging.
We have such as case now. The details are as
follows:
H.T. is a very nice 31 year-old woman who
on 11/10 will
be taking radiation pills as treatment for
thyroid cancer.
She will be released from the hospital
about three days
later, and then for another three or four
days thereafter
(11/13-11/16 or so) she will not be able
to come into
sustained close contact with other persons
so as not to
expose them to the radiation which is
still in her body.
As H.T.'s own family consists of her
husband and their
children, for this three or four day
period H.T. will not be
able to go to her own home and thus has
turned to HfH
for lodging elsewhere. The type of
lodging she needs
is a totally private space, such as a free
standing
guesthouse, or, in the basement of a home
wherein
there is a private entrance to the
basement. As
her family lives in Doylestown, ideally
wherever she
lodges will be a s close to there as
possible to ease
the burden on her husband whenever he
needs to bring
over to her whatever she may need; we
would, however,
be very interested in learning about any
such private
lodging situations anywhere in the Greater
Philadelphia
area, for other patient-families from
time-to-time require
such privacy as well
Please feel free to send this email on to anyone
whom you think
may be able to help this family. If you or
someone you know may
be interested helping this family or otherwise
becoming involved
with HfH, please contact me at your earliest
convience. In the
meantime, thanks again for your interest and
support.
Mike Aichenbaum
Director
HOSTS for HOSPITALS
300 N. Highland Avenue
Merion, PA 19066
610-660-6667 fax: 610-617-3659
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.hostsforhospitals.org
[HOSTS for HOSPITALS ("HfH") is a nonprofit
agency providing
free lodging and support at volunteer-host homes
as a caring
response to the housing needs of patients and
their families who
come to the Greater Philadelphia area for
specialized medical
care. From July 2000 through September 2003, 122
HfH
host-families have provided patient-families over
8,566 nights
of lodging, saving these guests an estimated
$524,000 in
equivalent hotel expenses].
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Katie Convery Diller
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