Not quite sure why, but having been a member of this group for eighteen months I appear to have been kicked out! Ive had to re-join but this is not my first post. I've used this group over the last year and a half to vent, to get information and to try and give the odd bit of assistance. As such, I felt that I wanted to let people know that my lovely, lovely, kind and gentle dad died last Thursday.
His immediate family had spent the day with him, had a single malt with him and were our usual chatty, noisy selves. We were told that hearing is the last sense to go and I like to think he could hear us. I commented to my sister-in-law that he didn't want to leave us and she said that when it went quiet he'd go. When night time came on, an old episode of Poirot on the t.v. just finished, he slipped away with us around him and telling him we loved him. After the last two arduous months I thought that relief would dull the sharp bite of loss when the moment finally came; I was wrong. I am broken-hearted.
He was so brave, so courageous, and I see from this forum that he is not alone in his fighting spirit. Thank you to all who have taken the time to correspond with me - it has been a place to turn to when I felt there was nowhere else. Wishing everyone here all the very best.
Sally
