hospice (noun)….”A home providing care for the sick or terminally ill”. I first set foot here about eight or nine years ago. Elaine had had a terrible reaction to the chemotherapy drugs and steroids she was then taking. They de-stabilized her mind causing massive anxiety and horrific panic attacks. As she gradually got over allContinue reading “FOREST HOLME HOSPICE”
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER(?)
I can’t believe that she’s gone. I was there when she died. I’ve seen her dead in her coffin. We’ve had her funeral, but I still can’t believe that she is not going to burst through the door any moment now saying “YEA! fooled you all. Now which miserable sods didn’t cry or send aContinue reading “A NIGHT TO REMEMBER(?)”
The Secret in My Freezer
Is your deepfreeze a depository for experimental batch-bakes that taste awful but you can’t justify wasting? Do you have packs of Supermarket Ready Meals reduced in price, but so reduced in size they barely constitute a snack? While the tasteless foods stay on the top shelf pleading for a purpose, the homemade pizzas hide outContinue reading “The Secret in My Freezer”
If I be the first of Us
If I be the first of us to die, Let grief not blacken long your sky. Be bold yet modest in your grieving. There is a change but not a leaving. And just as death is part of life, The dead live on for ever in the living. And all the gathered riches of ourContinue reading “If I be the first of Us”