Jan Higgins
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11 January 2011
15:4788575I am so sorry Bern, I know there is nothing I can say to bring you comfort but I am thinking of you and your family.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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11 January 2011
15:5388576Gosh Bern very sorry to hear that news. Condolences to you and family. Im sure everyone is very proud of you and your blog as you tried to draw attention to the situation as you found it.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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11 January 2011
15:5888578Condolences to you and the family in your loss.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 January 2011
16:0488580sincerest condolences.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 January 2011
16:1388583Thinking of you Bern. I'm so sorry to hear of this awful news.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 January 2011
17:0788587My condolences to you and your family Bern.
11 January 2011
17:2388589Thank you all so much. Your kindness means more than you might think - it is appreciated, genuinely and gratefully. It is a real comfort that she had such good and sensitive care at the end, and I am grateful to the lovely nurses who provided it. They are, each of them, stars and fabulous human beings who managed, with their excellent nursing skills and sensitive manners to restore a bit of faith in this battle-weary individual. And they will end up, with a light disguise, in the last part of my blog which will surface soon. She would have smiled to know that I may start a blog about the process of repatriation - I have started that process today in order to enable her wish to be buried in the family plot in Ireland. My assertive attitude and battleaxe demeanour caused her some amusement and diversions over the years.........and truth be told it will also distract me at this unbelievably difficult time. But we will all have had to face these things, and your empathy and kindness are so very welcome. Thank you.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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11 January 2011
17:3688590Sincere condolences Bern, even though not a surprise it is still no less of a shock for everyone. Keep your pecker up and I am sure your feistiness (is that a word?) will carry you and family through the days ahead.
Yours,
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
11 January 2011
18:0088592Bless you Peter, thank you. When I finally get around to it, we'll have a pint with a fab whiskey chaser.....
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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11 January 2011
18:0888598bern,sorry to here about your loss.may each day make you stronger.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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11 January 2011
18:0988599Thinking of you and your family at this sad time, its easy to forget about your health, Bern, please take care of yourself.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 January 2011
19:5888621So sorry Bern; Jean and I send our sincere condolences.
Good to hear that there was much kindness to her at the end.
I hope that what you have posted gets sent to, or read by, the Health Minister to try and introduce real "Care" in all our hospitals.
As GaryC has said above, you must look after yourself at this time too.
Kindest Regards Bern.
Roger
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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12 January 2011
00:2288644My condolences to you Bern and to your family. It's hard and very sad when there is a loss in the family.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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12 January 2011
09:3088648Our condolences to you Bern. No matter how prepared you think you are it is still a shock and a sad loss but you know that she would have been rightly proud of the courage you have shown throughout. Glad to hear that she got the care she deserved in the end and good luck with the repatriation.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
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Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
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12 January 2011
11:3188654My deepest condolences to you and to your family
Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
13:1588661I am so sorry to hear of your loss Bern, my condolences to you and your family at this sad time.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
12 January 2011
19:3688717Sorry to hear of your sad loss Bern, sincere condolences to you all.
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12 January 2011
20:1988724Cherish and share the happy memories Bern.
Watty
12 January 2011
20:2588725Thank you all again, so much. And good point, Paul - it is too easy to drown in the grief, but celebrating the good stuff is just as important. Thanks for the prompt - I needed it!
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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12 January 2011
20:4788728My thoughts are with you Bern.x
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
