My father died at 8.10 pm on Tuesday night. After that little moment on Sunday afternoon where he’d suddenly woken up (after having slept for the best part of a fortnight) and demanded something to eat and drink, he’d fallen back into a deep sleep and that was the last time he ever opened his eyes. […]
Well, here we are again. Another week’s gone by and my father’s slept through most of it. He was awake on Friday morning (although very unresponsive; just staring blankly at the TV), but that’s been it – pretty-much … until the nurse turned up on Sunday afternoon after we’d had to call her out because […]
“Two steps forward and one step back”. That’s what it’s felt like over the last week as my father’s condition’s worsened, but each time we think he’s probably about to die he suddenly perks up a little. That’s the ‘One step back’ bit. The ‘Two steps forward’ bit is two steps nearer to dying he […]
A bit of sad news for any of you who’ve ever seen any of my photos on here occasionally and on Twitter: Mr and Mrs S’s ‘little duck’ flew away this week, which only leaves ‘big duck’ all by herself now. Aah, poor thing. I went to do my Thursday ironing job on Saturday afternoon this week, […]
Here’s a lovely Sunrise Over Swindon photo I had to stop the car and take as I drove back to my dad’s house after my cleaning job at 7.15 am last Friday morning. Gorgeous, aye? Right. It’s now Monday and I’m in the front room attempting to write this short post. I’m daddysitting at 2.00, but it’s proving more […]
It’s 6.30 on Monday 4th February and I’m only just posting this. I still haven’t done the ‘behind the scenes’ admin for my previous two weeks’ blogs yet. Last week’s blog didn’t get posted until late on Monday afternoon (by which time I was almost beside myself with stress), and when I still hadn’t watched last […]
February 2012 My father’s in the final stages of terminal cancer. We’re caring for him at home but it’s extremely demanding, and I’m consequently having to try and fit my Soap-watching in whenever I’m able to grab a spare moment. It normally takes me from first thing on Saturday morning until Monday lunchtime to produce my […]
February 2013 My father’s in the final stages of terminal cancer. We’re caring for him at home but it’s extremely demanding, and I’m consequently having to try and fit my Soap-watching in whenever I’m able to grab a spare moment. It normally takes me from first thing on Saturday morning until Monday lunchtime to produce my weekly Soapy Corners […]
It normally takes me from first thing on Saturday morning until Monday lunchtime to produce my weekly Soapy Corners (and then I have another half a day’s admin etc to do on top of that), but I’m currently struggling to have even finished watching one week’s episodes before the next week’s start!
February 2012 My father’s in the final stages of terminal cancer. We’re caring for him at home but it’s extremely demanding, and I’m consequently having to try and fit my Soap-watching in whenever I’m able to grab a spare moment. It normally takes me from first thing on Saturday morning until Monday lunchtime to produce my weekly Soapy Corners […]
