Dory hopes for more peer support for 2018 and talks about how much it has helped her and others

Dory hopes for more peer support for 2018 and talks about how much it has helped her and others

Hi, this is Dory and it’s quite early in the morning, but I thought before I start the day I’d like to express what my hopes for this year, 2018 will be. I’m hoping to get more peer support in Flincher. I have my peer support with DEEP and the Old Brewery, so I want to push, get DEEP more heard about in Flincher. I have already got peer support like the Friendly Face, our new DEEP group at the Plough. So its very slow at the minute, but we have our first of 2018 social group at the Plough, so I’m hoping some more people will start joining in with that. I know it’s made a big difference to me, the peer support, mostly through DEEP and all you lovely people that I meet and I hope I can do more with DEEP this year because it helps me as well as helping other people.
A gentleman who comes to the resource centre and he’s just been coming a couple of months. I think he has Parkinson’s and Lewy Bodies. Before Christmas the centre closed for Christmas. I wishes him a Merry Christmas and he gave me a hug and said what a difference I had made to him since he’d been coming to the Old Brewery and he said it was my positivity, that he loves listening to me telling him about DEEP is doing and he’s always asking me had I been away doing any talks with DEEP and what I’d been up to. I felt really humbled and that is what I think it’s what it’s about, just to help just one person. And I thought even if it takes a long time to get peer support up and more popular in the area I live. So that’s two people with the phone call I got from Friendly Face and this gentleman. I would like him to come to our social group. I do have my peer support at the Old Brewery. That’s my hope for this year. Happy New Year, Bye.