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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over the past decade, American Ambulance has taken portion successful a nationalist programme that helps bring joyousness to patients during tumultuous times.
Ben Wiele with American Ambulance says for much than a decade, they person participated successful "The Sentimental Journey" program, which grants a privation to patients transitioning to hospice care.
"That's a existent pugnacious clip and truthful if there's immoderate mode successful which we tin make a 1 last affirmative representation for them oregon the family, we're going to bash that," said Wiele.
Patients oregon their families are typically asked if there's a peculiar spot the diligent tin beryllium taken 1 last time. Wiele says trips person been made arsenic acold arsenic the seashore and Yosemite to a last travel down Christmas Tree Lane.
"If we tin bash it reasonably, without it impacting the strategy astatine large, we're gonna bash it," Wiele said.
In a caller brushwood astatine an crystal pick store successful Hanford, a diligent transitioning to hospice attraction was seen fulfilling their "Sentimental Journey": a scoop of their favourite crystal cream.
"We privation to assistance people, we privation to assistance their families— and that's not conscionable successful those precocious acuity situations, it's creating a lasting memory," said Wiele. "Making definite that [the] diligent has a peaceful past transport and that they are filled with bully memories."
And portion the trips permission lasting memories for the patients, the trips besides interaction crews who assistance them fulfill these wishes. In Wiele's experience, helium says however taking a diligent to get blistery cocoa earlier heading down Fresno's Christmas Tree Lane made him instrumentality a measurement back.
"It reminds you, arsenic a supplier of care, wherefore you are doing this," Wiele expressed. "You are doing this to beryllium a help, a payment and to marque radical consciousness comfy during a stressful situation."
