The Heart Pillows group meet on the first and third Monday morning of each month.

The heart pillows are donated to Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre.

WOW!!

20,000!

Heart pillows have been donated to Sunnybrook to date! (May, 2010)

The Pioneers “Heart Pillow” is designed to aid patients recovering from heart surgery. Patients are encouraged to cough to release congestion in their lungs. Prior to the Pioneers “Heart Pillow”, hospitals would give patients rolled up blankets to hold against their chests to ease thepain associated with coughing. The rolled up blankets are cumbersome for the patients to handle.

The Pioneers “Heart Pillow” is a convenient, attractive and easy to handle remedy for heart patients with congestion.

This message is contained with each Heart Pillow

Best Wishes for a speedy recovery, from the bottom of our heart!
When you're going to cough or sneeze,
Just hold this on your chest and squeeze!
This should provide relief from pain,
And keep you from needing stitches again.

These pillows are made and taken around,
To heart surgery patients at hospitals in town
By the Scarborough Retiree's Club of the Telco Community Volunteers.

We hope this heart pillow will help you at the hospital and after, for years.

 

Heart Pillow Team (2010)
Arlene Lowther	Dianne Niemietz	Helen Shaughnessy
Ivy Taylor	June Gardiner	Mary O'Brien
Mary Shinn	Sharie Stewart	Susan Seabrooke
Sylvia Pratt	Ester Sitchon

 

 

Past Members of the Heart Pillow Team from Day One

Joyce Ashberry	Vi Burke	Arlene Lowther
June Gardiner	Joyce Gill	Eleanor Hunt
Glenys Lee	Ivy Taylor	Nina Luszczki
Dianne Niemietz	Mary O'Brien	Dorothy Patterson
Olive Phillips	Mary Shinn	Helen Shaughnessy
Sharie Stewart	Doris Foley	Marg MacInnis
Sheila McEwan	Jean Howard	Jean Vernon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scarborough Retirees Club
100 Borough Drive - Floor 1
Scarborough ON M1P 4W2

Club Room (416) 290-5381 - Hot Line (416) 296-0281

Email - scarborough@telcocommunityvolunteers.com