“It’s a shocker, you hear hospice and you think that’s where you end up before you float away. Now I know it’s a place you can come and you don’t float away.”

“I’m going to get a free massage, where do you get a free massage? I’m going to get a 3 course lunch, I’m going to get cups of tea. It’s just home from home for me. I love it, the more I come the more I love it.”

At age 40 my doctors diagnosed me with motor neurone disease (MND), which attacks the parts of the brain that control my muscles.

The doctor told me I had lung cancer just before Christmas 2014. He said I would probably live for six months without chemotherapy, or 18 months with.