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God Bless you staff and friends at Big Bend. You made Helen Hancocks last days on this earth so peaceful. Your loving spirit is what helped us get through, you are angels. It is genuine and you can tell.....thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
- Suzie Humphrey Elkins
“So many times employees only hear the negatives.. this is not the case. My mama, Lucy (Fluff) Hughes, was admitted to Big Bend Hospice in May 2010 after a lengthy and serious hospital stay. Fluff was reunited with Daddy on April 28, 2011 in Heaven. From the first minute she decided to accept help, her medical and emotional care was so much better. The quality of care received from the home health aides, nurses, doctors and other support staff was beyond acceptable. We really feel like these people were our family and were treated as such. Knowing what to expect from day to day and knowing that we were not alone was so much comfort to us. Fluff’s final year on this Earth was hard, but also peaceful. We had struggles but each time the staff was always there to reassure us and take care of any medical or emotional concern we had. Words can not explain the amount of gratitude that we have for Big Bend Hospice. I wish there was a better way to inform people of your services and let them know that Hospice is not a death sentence but means that your illness is terminal and how you live your final days is your decision. Too many people wait too long and suffer needlessly.”
- Cricket Edwards
“The end of last year was filled with very few positives for my family. My dad, Jeff Crum, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer near the end of the summer. The outlook was bleak from the beginning as the cancer was very far along. Bodean, as he is known by most people he met in his 56 years as a Tallahassee native, succumbed to the illness in December leaving a huge whole in what has always been a very close family. Big Bend Hospice came into our lives in the darkest of hours and could not have done a better job. Everything was taken care of and for the first time our family was able to focus on Jeff the son and brother and dad and not Jeff the cancer patient.
Of all the conversations my Dad and I had, music was a recurring theme over the years. He used to talk about sitting and listening to my Uncle Lanny play the piano for long periods of time and how much he loved it. One of our last conversations was his regret over not taking singing more seriously once he graduated Florida High. With this in mind, and the realization that I now had a pretty unique venue in Way Out West, I jumped at the chance to host a show when James Matthew Hughes brought the idea to me. Having already explored regular charity-based nights at the shop, it was easy to see this was meant to be when I found out James' mother works for Big Bend Hospice.
The caretakers with Big Bend Hospice work almost exclusively in the toughest emotional environments imaginable. From infants to the elderly and everyone in between they are an invaluable aid to terminal patients and their families. Their quiet professionalism and compassion goes relatively unsung as they will be the last to take credit for the job they do. It is truly an honor for Whitney and I to have the chance to help raise funds for The Big Bend Hospice Foundation and we are very excited about it.”
-Jeremiah Crum
“The family of L. Glenn Stubbs wants to convey our sincere gratitude for all the care and help provided during his illness by Big Bend Hospice. We want to thank all the doctors, nurses, music and physical therapists that had direct contact with Glenn, and the entire staff. We realize that it also takes people behind the scenes to make the “hands on” care not only therapeutic but compassionate.”
-Mark Hannon, Jackie Stubbs
and the Stubbs-Hannon Family
1723 Mahan Center Blvd. • Tallahassee, FL 32308 • 850.878.5310 or 800.772.5862
“So many times employees only hear the negatives.. this is not the case. My mama, Lucy (Fluff) Hughes, was admitted to Big Bend Hospice in May 2010 after a lengthy and serious hospital stay. Fluff was reunited with Daddy on April 28, 2011 in Heaven. From the first minute she decided to accept help, her medical and emotional care was so much better. The quality of care received from the home health aides, nurses, doctors and other support staff was beyond acceptable. We really feel like these people were our family and were treated as such. Knowing what to expect from day to day and knowing that we were not alone was so much comfort to us. Fluff’s final year on this Earth was hard, but also peaceful. We had struggles but each time the staff was always there to reassure us and take care of any medical or emotional concern we had. Words can not explain the amount of gratitude that we have for Big Bend Hospice. I wish there was a better way to inform people of your services and let them know that Hospice is not a death sentence but means that your illness is terminal and how you live your final days is your decision. Too many people wait too long and suffer needlessly.”