Today is Boxing Day, 5 weeks and one day on from Nat's death. I have been mulling over whether or not to add to her blog, start my own, or just leave it alone. However, there were so many reactions to the "final post" that I recognised that some people may want to know how we have done, so here are definitely final thoughts, in no particular order.
We have had "Nat's Christmas" this year, as a result of…
Hello everyone. This is Andy here. As promised, I am going to attempt to finish off Nat's blog as best I can. The first thing I should say is that Nat was hopeless with bookmarks, and it's taken me ages to even find the page...
I have found the following short draft, which I'm guessing was written on 22nd October. It was the twins birthday on the 20th, and Nat had booked herself in to the hospice on the 16th for…
Hello all
I am writing to you whilst scoffing bacon sandwiches, lovingly made by Mr H, and watching Homes Under the Hammer (one of my secret pleasures).
I'm sorry that the last blog was so bleak. It was a blog that was already written it just hadn't been published. It was always the most likely option being that miracles in my world seem to be highly lacking lately.
I told you we were going to go to Scarborough…
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I'm home after another 8 days in hospital. Basically once we were back from London the health professionals on my team up here felt that I needed to be admitted as I still had a temperature and my blood cultures were all over the place.
So in I went.
I was immediately put on a course of antibiotics and settled onto a small ward of four though there was just me and one other lady at this point.
I am not sure…
Where do I start?
I've had quite a time of it over the past fortnight.
We managed to get a week away, all of us without incident. I had to remember to pack all my medical things (all new to me) but we made it. We stayed in a little lodge in Northumberland and just relaxed, did a little sightseeing and laid in most days.
The children played outside in the big courtyard, it was nice just sitting watching them play on…
