Turning points

Sue's Mum , Rene, has been in hospital for over 6 weeks now and we have been visiting her every day. We have watched as she has slowly deteriorated and had become reconciled to the idea that there was no way back for her. Yet it was still a bit of a shock when we went in on Tuesday 12th december to see her and found an empty bed. She had died peacefully at 11am and we got there at just after half past one. The hospital had been trying to phone us but had our number wrong. We can't praise the hospital strongly enough; Rene could not have had better service and kinder care. Because we are keeping things very simple and it is just Sue and I, the cremation is on Thursday. This is nice since it will give us time to get over all of this before Christmas and before our son Guy gets home from South Korea.

We will be going back to England sometime in January to hold a Celebration of Rene's Life with her friends and family and to all drink a glass of wine in her memory. She would have approved of that!

What a year this has turned out to be.