by Kate Robinson | Apr 9, 2025 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
It’s like walking into a little oasis that takes all the sting out of everything bad. That’s how Sally Shillington describes her visits to the mobile cancer care unit in Louth in Lincolnshire. Sally likes to refer to the unit as ‘the bus’ and jokes that she feels...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 14, 2025 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
The nurses are wonderful and, I must say, being able to access the bus has really made treatment so much more tolerable and a lot more convenient. “My family begged me to go to the doctor, but I was too stubborn at first”, admitted Jill Horton. So, when Jill, 72, was...
by Kate Robinson | Aug 3, 2023 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
I was then referred to the mobile care unit, which is based in Louth, just seven miles away from where I live “In December 2018, I was told I had breast cancer. It was quite aggressive, and I was also 26 weeks pregnant. It was a very, very frightening time,” recalls...
by Kate Robinson | Aug 3, 2023 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
I will go and have my treatment and tie it in with having my hair done afterwards, it makes it a nicer day Denise Parrott, 49, who lives in Middle Rasen, is a lab technician at Lincoln County Hospital. She is also now a patient there. “I live near Louth, which is...
by admin | Apr 28, 2022 | Lincoln, Patient Stories
Peter previously had a 100-mile round trip to the hospital Peter is 79 years old, Louth born and bred, and he’s been living with cancer for just over five years now. He had his kidney removed in 2017 after his initial diagnosis, subsequently getting the ‘all clear’...
