Health
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With a nod to the profundity that is turn of the century popular music “Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it.” (Ronan Keating) This is how our days are passing now, in a stomach churning, lurching spin from hope to despair. G is, at times, lucid and engaged and then he can’t remember how…
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Déjà vu
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In the first days and weeks after G came home I concentrated on searching out services and organisations that could help. I made sure we had the phone number of the palliative care team because G had decided that he didn’t want any treatment, didn’t want to go to hospital and was ‘happy’ to fade…
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The whale in the pond is, of course, the prospect of impending death, when it will happen and how it will happen. There are no answers to those questions so we have to ignore them, as best we can, and get on with the everyday life. That still means that every ache and pain that…