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Lunch Break Book Club - Letters from Madelyn

Take a break in your day and join us for our Lunch Break Book Club! Whether you are caregiving or looking for a way to connect with others, together we will explore timely topics while engaging with fellow community members. Sponsored by Hospice of the Piedmont and Senior Resources of Guilford, the Book Club focuses on caregivers although anyone in the community is invited to participate.

Event Details

Join us on Thursday, January 9 as we begin exploring our next book selection, Letters from Madelyn: Chronicles of a Caregiver by Elaine K. Sanchez. The kickoff event will be a chance to meet other participants and take part in an introduction to the book. All participants will reconvene on Thursday, February 13 after reading the selection for a book club discussion. Attendance at the kickoff event is required to be part of the discussion.

Letters from Madelyn – Kickoff
Thursday, January 9
12 noon
High Point Public Library | Morgan Community Room
901 N. Main Street, High Point
(refreshments will be provided)

Registration

Registration is required by completing the form below by Tuesday, January 7. If you have questions, please contact Ryan Biagini at 336-889-8446.

About the Book

Letters from Madelyn: Chronicles of a Caregiver
by Elaine K. Sanchez

Madelyn Kubin was a seventy year-old Kansas farm wife. She appeared to be fragile, but when her husband Quentin suffered a debilitating stroke, she was forced to summon physical, emotional, and spiritual strengths she didn’t know she possessed in order to
care for him at home. Madelyn managed her isolation, loneliness, and stress by going to her computer, disengaging her emotional monitor, and writing letters to her daughter Elaine.

Madelyn’s story of faith, courage, and love is told through her unflinchingly honest and surprisingly funny letters written in real time over the course of six-and-a-half years. This book tells the story of a caregiver who found mental and spiritual growth even in the very worst of end-of-life situations.

January 9, 2025 12:00 pm

High Point Public Library

901 N. Main Street, High Point, NC, 27262

Your entire team was amazing. They are very professional in their work but also have big hearts and it comes through in how they do their work and in their positive attitudes.

- Daughter of patient

Thank you for making your home like her home, warm and comfortable.

- Sister of a patient (in reference to Hospice Home)

Your kindness and efforts go far beyond the patients and extend to their families and friends.

- Family of a patient

Everyone who cared for my wife was, without exception, caring, kind, and exceptionally capable individuals who seemed to truly care about her well-being and care.

- Husband of a patient

Your staff (at Hospice Home) was confident, thoughtful, kind and very loving to my mom. When we couldn’t be there or take care of her needs, you took care of her.

- Son of a patient

My mother spent her last days in your facility. I want to thank you for the gifts you gave to her and our family. The dignity, caring, professionalism, and kindness will remain a bright part of our saying goodbye to our mother.

- Daughter of a patient

My family and I would not have made it without Hospice.

- Daughter of a patient

For many veterans, military service is the most important thing that they have done in their lives.” As part of We Honor Veterans, those patients are now paired with a volunteer who also served in the military and share a common bond.

- Joe Lyons, Hospice volunteer

Thank you for all of your care, concern, education and kindness during Mom’s last year. My grief journey has had a lighter backpack because of Hospice.

- A patient’s daughter

Their touch, their time, their words were the comfort of a lifetime.

- A patient’s family

We were privileged to have the support of (Hospice)…They nurtured and cared for my husband as if he was their only patient.

- Wife of a patient

Me consuela saber que mi esposa tuvo los mejores cuidados gracias a Hospice. La ayudaron a ella y a nuestra familia en todas las maneras posibles.

- Marido de un paciente

I thank God for putting good people in the right job for people like me.

- Patient family member

We were so impressed by your staff and your desire to help us. No one wants to need Hospice, but when a person does, it is a tremendous blessing. Thanks again for the care you gave my dad, and ultimately all of us.

- Daughter of a patient

I would like to say that you have a beautiful Hospice Home. It is so nice and serene. I love the “quiet spots” that you can go to and meditate. Thank you so much in helping make my mother’s last days on this earth a little better and comforting.

- Daughter of a patient