We were happy to hand over 460 new Restaurant Cards to Jackie at the meeting. These have been purchased out of funds raised by the group. The card is intended to be carried in the wallet or purse, and can be used to influence staff in restaurants to provide smaller meal sizes or additional gravy / sauce as appropriate.

Head and Neck cancer treatment brings with it a whole range of eating issues, and these cards can help ease folk in the recovery phase back into eating out with family and friends.

If you’d like one, please speak to any of the specialist nurses as the stock is largely held at the hospitals. Here’s what they look like back and front……..

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Jackie informed the August meeting that a free Wellbeing Event is being held between 10.00am and 14.00pm on the above date. Several of our group have attended these before, all thought the session was time well spent.

This event covers moving on after treatment, diet tips and general wellbeing aspects. Please phone Jackie Miller on 01785 886083 for more details if you’d like to attend this event. It’s running at Northfield Centre, Magnolia Avenue, (Off Cooperative Street) Stafford. ST16 3DU

If using a SatNav, please use PostCode ST16 3BZ

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Diane from Hands 4 Wellbeing is coming along to our September meeting on Wed 5th September at 7.30pm to demonstrate how Reflexology can become a useful part of your life, helping with a whole range of issues. Macmillan will also be in attendance, as they support Hands 4 Wellbeing

As a teaser, here are photos of the self-help guide, available from Hands 4 Wellbeing. Their webpage is http://hands4wellbeing.co.uk/

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We had a small group [ 7 ] for the August meeting – holidays and so forth but it was great to meet two new friends. It’s always an effort to come along for the first time, especially having finished treatment so recently. I hope our new members become regulars, as there are always new ideas and possibilities being discussed.

We felt it was too small a group for a pop-up raffle but hoping a bigger group in September will allow us to get one in – the cash always goes directly to help patients directly or the Hospitals themselves.

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