Category Archives: Your Stories

The calm before the humidity…a sweaty outbreak of loss of faith; entwined with the bleak stares of many faces forming a wall of hot matter hitting my face. The force must have been so strong, I just stood there in shock before welling up, unable to breathe.  This had happened once before, a long time […]

Years ago, as a district nurse, I use to walk my dog at lunchtimes in the local park where a homeless man befriended my dog. He was drawn to my Labrador, Tess, and would never let us by until he’d had a little stroke. Initially, we talked about the weather. Over time, I would sit […]

Sunday morning, bit of a lie-in – for some reason my meandering mind took me to ships. Tall ships – I thought that I’d never been to a Tall Ships event, even though I have always loved looking at pictures of them. Cue the IPad to look at some photos – I googled tall ships […]

Terry Ainsworth Terry is a volunteer at Royal Lancaster Infirmary and he is very passionate about the hospital and now raises money for the Morecambe Bay Hospital’s Charity. Gala Dinner Terry suffered a fall in 2017 during a Gala dinner – in fact he was talking to Morecambe FC manager, Jim Bentley, at the time […]

A couple of years ago I decided that I needed a bit more energy, to continue enjoying my hectic life in the manner I had previously. In order to do this I decided to start eating more healthily and become more active.  By default, I also ended up losing a few stone.  I regularly asked […]

My Weight Loss Story:   I had been wanting to lose some weight after I found that I was struggling to run around and play with my three children. I followed some of the Weight Loss Tips given to me by my colleague.  I found that I could eat naughty foods, but I would simply […]

As a member of staff at UHMBfT I responded to the couch to 5k flourish campaign. I really needed to get fit as I had been ill with meningitis and other issues so had lost lots of fitness having been in hospital for 3 weeks and unable to anything remotely strenuous for at least 6-8 […]