And thankful that, although a hospital bed in the winter couldn’t be more different than a lavender field in the summer, he could have one more meaningful meal with his beloved Sandy by his side. Sanjeeve is so thankful that he could share the pizza with the health-care team that he couldn’t be more grateful for. “I don’t have words,” Sandy cries, stroking her husband’s head. Then Sanjeeve opens the box, and takes a moment to relish the aroma, before taking his first bite and giving a thumbs up. When Karen delivers the pizzas to the hospital room, Sandy greets her with a big hug. “Then the world will be a very better place to live,” Sanjeeve says. He hoped that by sharing his story, others will be inspired to spread kindness too. “I was just ordering a pizza.”īut then again, Sanjeeve says, this is not about pizza - this is about kindness. “I was shocked that they were willing to go this far,” Sanjeeve says, smiling. Sandi was one of a number of people who came in on their day off to grant Sanjeeve’s wish.īilston Creek’s owner Andrew Penn provided all the food – plus the 45-minute drive from the farm in Metchosin to the hospital in Victoria – for free. “Then mozzarella cheese, kale from our local farmers, artichoke hearts, chicken, and Moroccan olives.”Īs Sandi drizzles olive oil and sprinkles salt along the crust to ensure a satisfying last bite, she reveals the pizza’s most important ingredient with a giggle: “Love!” “It begins with our own tomato sauce,” chef Sandi Iriving says while creating the pizza. So although it was the off-season and they weren’t serving any food, the staff at Bilston Creek spent two days preparing the outdoor oven that had been dormant all winter, and scrambling to source the ingredients for the handmade dough and fresh toppings to make the pizza Sanjeeve had remembered so fondly. Sanjeeve wrote that he was in palliative care, with just weeks to live, and hoped to taste their pizza one last time. “We couldn’t believe what we were reading,” Karen recalls. So Sanjeeve sent a message to the Bilston Creek lavender farm, which was received by events manager Karen Grundlingh. Sanjeeve wondered if experiencing it again with Sandy might help them cope with the sudden diagnosis that he was suffering from a rare and aggressive cancer. “It was amazing,” he says from his hospital bed. “So peaceful.”Īnd the wood-fired pizza they were served there, Sanjeeve says, is the best he ever had. “So beautiful,” Sandy Seeburn recalls with a big smile. After spending more than four months in hospital, Sanjeeve Seeburn and his wife Sandy were thinking back on that “magical” summer day they spent at a rural lavender farm.
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