By Leicester Mercury | Posted 6 april, 2013
Jennifer, Lady Gretton, president of LOROS hospice, recently asked Caroline Wessel – well-known for her histories of Leicestershire villages – to write a booklet on the first 25 years, since the opening of this wonderful facility.
Simply titled LOROS, Celebrating 25 Years, it is a lovely tribute to the caring people who run the hospice and to those who had the foresight and tenacity to create it all those years ago.
Created mainly for the end-of-life care of cancer patients, it does that, and so much more.
I have personal knowledge of the very great compassion and care shown to patients there.
My big, strong, relatively young brother-in-law, Malcolm, passed away there in only its third year, in 1988, and my dear wife Patti, passed away there in December.
The care extended to them both was well beyond what could be expected.
It was and is a great comfort to all of our family members.
Many families in our region have been helped tremendously by the hospice, and its sister respite centre at Manor Croft, in Stoneygate, Leicester.
The booklet has many beautiful colour photos within its pages and is a very well-researched history, which I urge all of your readers to search out and purchase, from their Loros shop.
The cost is just £5 and, of course, all the proceeds go to help finance the very important ongoing work of the hospice.
If all Mercury readers bought a copy, how well would that swell the LOROS coffers.
A sum of around £4 million a year is still needed to proceed with the good work.
So, go on, seek out a copy of this lovely booklet and show how much we, the people of Leicestershire appreciate the fine work the hospice carries out for us now and will continues to do so in the future.
Mark Wolfe, Countesthorpe.
