In a post to mark the ‘Volunteer week’ in April last Joan wrote about her current life and work  – ‘ what the heck I actually do’.  She co-ordinates day-to-day routine of volunteers who turn up to work at a hospital in her town.  The hospital  gets over 450 volunteers a month  -  in ages  ranging from 14 years to 90 plus .  By her book the hospital  has logged 82,000 volunteer hours in the last one year. They have helped  the hospital with clerical support, have filled water pitchers; they help feed, make rounds on patients,  push wheelchairs, help in the nursery and drive golf carts.

” I have a singing volunteer, a couple of clowns and pet therapists whose trained dogs wear official hospital  ID tags”, writes Joan Perry, hospital director of volunteers and my new-found blogger friend in South Carolina.