516 Trail Avenue
Suite C
Frederick, MD 21702
240-566-3030
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Hospice of Frederick County, a division of the Frederick
Memorial Healthcare System, is a specialized service
for families who need expert help to care for a loved
one facing advanced stages of illness. Our mission is
to promote quality of life by providing comprehensive
medical, emotional and spiritual support to terminally
ill individuals and their loved ones.
Hospice
of Frederick County seeks to make an individual’s
remaining time as peaceful, comfortable and pain-free
as possible. We focus on palliative “comfort-oriented”—care
designed to help people in the advanced stages of illness
live each day comfortably and to its fullest.
An old man and his grandson were walking along a deserted
beach at sunset. The little boy became concerned about
all the starfish that had washed up on the beach. He
bent down and, one by one, began to return them to the
safety of the waves. “What do you think you’re
doing?” said the man gently to his grandson.
“I’m
throwing these starfish back into the ocean,” said
the little boy. “It’s low tide now and all
these starfish have been washed up onto shore. If I
don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll
die up here.”
“I
understand,” replied the old man. “But there
must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can’t
possibly get all of them. There are simply too many.
And this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches
all up and down the coast. Can’t you see that you
can’t possibly make a difference?”
The little boy smiled, bent down and picked up yet another
starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he turned
to his grandfather and said, “I made a difference
to that one!” |
