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By NSCC Journalism student Paige Dillman who is interning with The Laker News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n HALIFAX:<\/strong> The QEII Foundation and Nova Scotia Health have collaborated to unveil a new and enhanced Sunshine Room.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sunshine room is a calming space for cancer patients and family members to try to relax or have some quiet time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sunshine Room Coordinator, Erin Fair, says that it\u2019s important for patients and families to have a place like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is more than \u2018just a room\u2019: it is a place of comfort, of refuge, of community. It is a place where cancer patients can relax in between their treatments and appointments.\u201d Fair says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the pandemic, Fair says, the room was converted into systemic therapy treatment pods, which at the time were highly needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, the Sunshine Room is completely run by volunteers, and with no volunteers being permitted in the building during the pandemic, the room was not operational. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After five years, they decided there needed to be another room like this for cancer patients and families, so they joined with Nova Scotia Health to build a new one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fair says this room offers things like massage therapy, Reiki or reflexology, given by licensed volunteers, along with wigs and wig fittings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”237″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over time, they hope to add a book club, a knitting club and art therapy to the room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The reason it took so long to reopen the room was that it took two years to secure a new and suitable location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sunshine Room is open Monday-Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Donations to The Sunshine Room can be made at QE2Foundation.ca\/donate. The Sunshine Room begins welcoming patients on May 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”206″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”238″] [adrotate banner=”105″] By NSCC Journalism student Paige Dillman who is interning with The Laker News HALIFAX: The QEII Foundation and Nova Scotia Health have collaborated to unveil a new and enhanced Sunshine Room.\u00a0 The Sunshine room is a calming space for cancer patients and family members to try to relax or have some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[76,50,3009,2199,6202,8348],"class_list":["post-55633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-cancer","tag-halifax","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-nsh","tag-qeii-foundation","tag-sunshine-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}