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    Lost my Mum today

    My Mum died today, I am still shocked. Got a message from my brother midway through my shift that there was an emergency. She has been suffering from dementia for a few years and has been in a nursing home for the past couple of years, but her physical health has always been excellent, which is better than can be said for her mental health. Today she either had a fall which caused a stroke or had a stroke which caused a fall, whatever, but she has passed on.

    One of the really annoying things about this is that even though it was obviously a case of an elderly lady with ailing health expiring, it is apparently treated the same as a death in custody, due to her being in a nursing home, and her body has to be shipped to the coroner for an autopsy, which I find quite upsetting.

    She was a wonderful, compassionate woman without an enemy in the world, which is why I always got upset about why she had so many security bars on her house when she was there, before she had to move into the nursing home.

    I have already told my son, aged 14 and he doesn’t seem too bad about it, but a bit confused, but tomorrow is when my nieces and nephew aged 9, 6 and 4 find out. I am glad I don’t have to explain it to them because they never understood that Mum was sick and would remember how her eyes would light up whenever she saw them even though she didn’t remember their names. Bugger of a Xmas coming up.

    Anyway, just thought writing down my thoughts might help me deal with it, but we will see. I am sitting here drinking way too much, I don’t feel tired, but I know stuff needs to be sorted out tomorrow. I am going to feel like **** in the morning.
    John

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    Sorry to hear mate, my thoughts are with you.
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    I am so very sorry to hear that..

    sympathy from myself and my family.




    You didn't die just recently,
    You died some time ago.
    Although your body stayed a while,
    And didn't really know.

    For you had got Dementia ,
    You failed to comprehend.
    Your body went on living.
    But your mind had reached its end.

    Those rare fleeting moments
    When the twinkle of your eye
    Let us know you saw "us"
    Those days were for us a high.

    So we've already said, "Goodbye",
    To the person that we knew.
    The person that we trully loved,
    The person that was, "You".

    And so we meet again today,
    To toast your bodies end.
    For it was true and faithful,
    Until right at the end.

    And so, when we remember,
    We'll think of all the rest.
    We'll concentrate on earlier,
    And remember all the best.

    For in the real scheme of things,
    Your illness wasn't long.
    Compared to all the happiness,
    You brought your whole life long.

    We think of you as yesterday,
    When you were fit and well.
    And when we're asked about you,
    It's those things that we'll tell.

    And so we meet in 'membrance,
    Of a mind so fit and true.
    We're here to pay our last respects
    To say that, "We love you".

    Dick Underwood 2010

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    Sincerest condolences to you and yours, my Mum passed recently under similar circumstances, Regards Frank.

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    My sympathy. My mother went in similar circumstances about thirty years ago - but she had really been gone for several years before this.

    John
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    Condolences for your loss.

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    Sorry to hear of your loss DB.

    Remember and cherish the good times.

    Our deepest sympathies go out to you and yours from our family.

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    I offer my heartfelt condolance for your loss.
    Please drink a little to remember her in better times, not a lot to forget her in bad times.

    Ralph

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    My sympathies. There's never a good time of year to lose a loved one. Cherish the happy memories you have of her, dementia is truly a cruel beast.

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    Condolences to you and your family mate

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