{"id":312588,"date":"2025-12-12T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312588\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:24:15","slug":"dougie-mac-hospice-worker-to-retire-after-almost-four-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312588\/","title":{"rendered":"Dougie Mac hospice worker to retire after almost four decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Parkin said she had wanted to work at the hospice after comments her auntie, who was dying of cancer, made to her as a young girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told her she did not want to go into the Dougie Mac as &#8220;you only come out in a box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The healthcare support worker said she had worked to change the stigma around hospices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not that place anymore, it&#8217;s a place where people can go and just relax, and know that we are there for them, take all their worries away, and be nursed like they should be nursed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People in the hospice love the sound of laughter, to have a chat and to have a joke, said Ms Parkin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nothing is any different really because they are dying..they love us going into them, we make their day, they make our day, it really is a beautiful place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Parkin said she had wanted to work at the hospice after comments her auntie, who was dying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-312588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}