Jim McQueen and his wife, Pat, had a long bucket list of countries they wanted to visit together. In 2008, two weeks before Pat died of cancer, the pair managed to visit the final country on that list—Russia. Pat had been fighting cancerous brain tumours for 15 years. Jim says that those 15 years of life would not have been possible without the care they received at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH).

“We saw the world because of the doctors here,” Jim says, looking towards the doors of VGH. “Earlier on, her length of treatment after surgery would be 11 days and in the last few years before she passed, treatment would only take three days, so we had that extra time together.”

Since 1994, Jim and Pat have donated thousands of dollars to VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. When Pat passed, her $50,000 life insurance policy was specifically given to support cancer research and education. Jim has also left a gift in his will, in support of neuro-oncology development, to continue Pat’s legacy and to provide hope for families who are facing similar illnesses. Since Pat’s passing, Jim continues to be a generous donor and volunteer. Three or four times a week, he drives cancer patients to treatment appointments in Vancouver, Abbotsford and Surrey.

Jim is also a cancer survivor and says that he feels good donating his time and money to a health care system that has helped him and his wife so much.

“When my wife had cancer, volunteer drivers took her to the hospital and they really helped her—I wanted to do that,” the 67-year-old says. “I’m doing this in her honour.”

[:zh]吉姆•麦奎恩(Jim McQueen)和他的妻子帕特(Pat)，有一个人生目标清单，列出他们想要一起游览的国家。2008年，帕特死于癌症前两周，这对夫妇到访了名单上的最后一个国家 – 俄罗斯。帕特15年来一直与恶性脑肿瘤对抗。吉姆认为如果没有温哥华综合医院 (VGH) 的照顾，这15年的生活是无法渡过的。

“全赖这里的医生，我们才可以走遍世界，”吉姆对着VGH的大门说，“早些年，手术后每次疗程是11天，但在帕特过世前的最后几年，疗程只需三天时间，让我们有更多时间在一起。”

自1994年以来，吉姆和帕特已经向温哥华综合医院塈卑诗大学医院基金会捐赠了数千元。当帕特过世时，她 $50,000人壽保险的捐款全數用于支持癌症研究和教育。吉姆也为了支持神经肿瘤学发展而留下了遗赠，以传承帕特的遗愿，为面对类似疾病的家庭提供希望。自帕特逝世以来，吉姆继续是一位慷慨的捐助者和义工。每周三、四次，他开车接送癌症病人从阿博斯福和素里到温哥华接受治疗。

吉姆也是一名癌症幸存者，他表示，自己及妻子曾受惠予卑诗省的医疗保健系统，他很乐意奉献自己的时间和金钱。

“当我的妻子患上癌症时，义工由家中送她到医院，他们真的帮了她很多，” 67岁的吉姆说，“我希望可以为纪念我太太而做同样事。”

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