HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-11-12, Page 3Butterfly Room is Opened
New Palliative
Care Space at
Pinecrest
Valerie Gillies
Editor, Lucknow Sentinel
The "Butterfly Room" at
Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow
was officially opened at a rib-
bon cutting ceremony on
November 3,2014. The project
was proposed and carried out
by the Palliative Care Team,
headed up byWilma Blake who
has been working at Pinecrest
for 35 years.
The team reports that
"Palliative Care benefits any
person and family living with a
life-threatening illness. The goal
of palliative care is to relieve suf-
fering and promote quality of
living and quality of dying.' Res-
idents at Pinecrest can choose
to make use of the Butterfly
Room or, if they feel more com-
fortable doing so, to stay in their
own room.
The name and concept for
the room was formed in the
mind ofBlake. She believes in
life being in definite stages, of
which dying is the final stage.
The idea of the butterfly life
cycle was appealing as the
stages are so (-Efferent with the
final stage being the emergence
of wings to let them fly freely.
Following this analogy, the per-
son will be Oven wings in the
final stage oflife to fly to heaven.
Lucknow Red Tent
Linda Johnston
Facilitator Red Tent
Our Monthly gathering for
the Lucknow Red Tent was
held October 23, 2014 at
Grassroots Rural retreat. The
astrological influence for this
new Moon in October was
Scorpio. The goal of under-
standing is to transcend our
lower urges by becoming
aware of one's own shadow.
Knowing and being aware of
our negative thoughts and
triggers helps to transform
our natural impulse of want-
ing to destroy others in an
unconscious means of self
defense. The lesson to our-
selves is to acknowledge our
anger as it rises, transform it
to a positive action and be
able to live a liberated life
according to our inner
truths.
Our theme and Circle dis-
cussion for this month was
Gratitude. We were very grate-
ful to have Ruth Percy from
Goderich as one our our Sis-
ters. Ruth teaches Nia in
Goderich and at Grassroots
twice a week. Nia is a cardio
dance group fitness class that
incorporates martial arts,
dance arts, and healing arts.
Nia promotes mindfulness
and holistic fitness and well
being. "Nia empowers people
of all shapes and sizes to con-
nect their body, mind, emo-
tions and spirit by paying
attention to sensations. Nia is
practiced barefoot through
non -impact choreography
and listening to the intelli-
gence of the body. Partici-
pants are shown a variety of
intensity levels and ways to
modify movements to safely
condition their bodies:'
Ruth led us through a full
participation demonstration
of the moves, then an amaz-
ingly fun and creative and hair
soakingworkout We all loved
it. Ruth also led us through the
emotionally powerful dance
of "one Billion Rising': It was
one of our most fun evenings.
There are now over
20,000 Red tents all over the
world. Please feel free to join
us for some "Sisterhood
Time" in our sacred space at
Grassroots Rural Retreat Our
next gathering is November
20th at 7 PM. Please RSVP to
Linda Johnston at ljohnston@
tnt21.com , or if you want
more information on the Red
tent movement go to www.
redtentmovie.com.
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Unfortunately the room was
closed to the public at the time
of the ribbon -cutting as it was in
use by a resident. Blake
described the choices made by
herself and the Resident's
Council in decorating the room.
The paint chosen is an off white
that captures the changing light
in the room, also providing the
perfect backdrop for bright fab-
ric and tin butterfly art that cov-
ers the walls, door and even
some in the window. This gives
texture and colour to add com-
fort to the resident and family as
a distraction or something to
focus on during the stay.
There have been contribu-
tions from the community to
augment the decor and provide
comfort for the families as well
as the resident Lucknow Pres-
byterian, Lucknow United and
South Kinloss churches were
asked to provide quilts for the
room, not just for the bed, but
for use by the family to bundle
up while staying with their
loved one. All have graciously
taken up the challenge. Luc-
lcnow Pharmasave has donated
bags for the families including
small items such as pens and
pads to write notes or lists,
candy to suck on and Kleenex.
The paint was purchased from
Lucknow Home Hardware who
have also donated angel keep-
sakes for the families to have as
a remembrance of their loved
one. The residents and team
would like to thank all who
have contributed in so many
ways.
Alison Clark, Nurse Practi-
tioner with Community Care
Access accepts referrals for peo-
ple who require complex or pal-
liative care. The
interdisciplinary team at
Pinecrest is composed of the
person, the family, the doctor,
nursing (which may include a
Nurse Practitioner), physiother-
apy, recreation, dietary, clergy
and housekeeping. "The team
explores ways to manage symp-
toms and care for the person's
body, mind and spirit' Liz laird
from the Palliative Pain and
Symptom Management Con-
sultation Program of South-
westem Ontario provides sup-
port to the Pinecrest team. In
October, 6 staff members com-
pleted the Fundamentals of
Hospice Palliative Care
Program.
At the ceremony, another
presentation was made. The 1st
Beaver Division Trefoil Guild,
Girl Guides of Canada donated
2 tactile aprons that they had
sewn to CathyLane, RN, Behav-
iour Supports Ontario for use
with the residents at Pinecrest
Resident Isobel Adams cut
the ribbon to the Butterfly
Room on behalf of the Resi-
dents' Council.
Valerie Gillies/Lucknow Sentinel
Lucknow Home Hardware
has donated Angel keepsakes
for each family who occupies
the Butterfly Room at
Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow.
November 3, 2014.
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Palliative Care Team Leader Wilma Blake displays many of the
donations received from the community for the new Butterfly
Room at Pinecrest Manor. During the ribbon -cutting ceremony on
November 3, 2014, Cathy Lane, RN Behaviour Supports Ontario
also receives a donation of tactile aprons from the 1st Beaver
Division Trefoil Guild, Girl Guides of Canada based in Lucknow.
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