A Place In The Sun’s Jonnie Irwin has delivered a tough cancer update on Morning Live from his end of life hospice.
During Monday’s visit (July 24) to the BBC studios, Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones to talk discuss the ongoing news hitting the headlines.
One of the biggest stories on the sofa this morning was the broadcaster’s experience with palliative care as he shut down some of the main misconceptions many people have about hospices.
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Last year, the presenter revealed that he was informed he could have “months” to live after he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in August 2020 before it spread to his brain.
Now, Jonnie has opened up about his experience of receiving care in a hospice since he was diagnosed three years ago.
When the Welsh host asked how he was getting on, the housing expert said: “I'm really good thanks, I have up days and down days but today’s very much an up day and the family are great and very noisy.”
The TV personality went on to outline how his views had changed surrounding palliative care after he first tried it out during lockdown.
He added: “Palliative care is the care that you’re given when the doctors think that you won’t recover, so I've been in palliative care since day one.
“My hospice is a delight actually. I wouldn’t say it’s like a hotel but it’s like a very, very nice private hospital.
“My perception of a hospice was a boiling hot room full of people who look frail and look towards the end of their days.
“This is nothing of the sort, it’s spacious, energised, comfortable – it's even got a jacuzzi bath and en-suite rooms.
“The staff are just amazing, so I've had a really, really good experience with my hospice.”
Jonnie, who shares three children with his wife Jessica Holmes, was then asked what advice he would give to people who may be in a similar situation to him.
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“First of all, embrace it,” he said, explaining his first experience in a hospice came when he was invited to do a blood transfusion as a day patient in a “lovely room” with a table “piled high with biscuits.”
“I implore people to check out the hospice, if you’ve got the choice of using it then use it.
“You have a right to a choice of a hospice if you so wish and I would encourage people to explore that option because it’s not this doom and gloom operation that you might think it was.”
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