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Exits and entrances


CarolineTyler

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Two days before Christmas 2010 my girlfriend's mother got bad news from the hospital, she had advanced primary pancreatic cancer and numerous secondary cancers.

The prognosis was terminal and the level and number of cancers meant that there would be no effective treatment.

I helped make Christmas as good as it could for the family, helping with the cooking and generally trying to keep things on an even keel.

We all knew that the cancer was aggressive but I don't think anybody was really ready for the speed that things happened during January.

Monday the 24th I got a call from my girlfriend that her mum had a bad night and that she was being admitted into hospital to deal with a build-up of fluids in her abdomen. I took the rest of the week off work and took the train to be with the family. Tuesday and Wednesday she was uncomfortable but talkative and reactive, Thursday she started a decline and overnight slipped into a coma. I was at her bedside with her brother when she gently slipped away for good around 10pm Friday night.

This has left me a bit 'shell shocked' and flat feeling for life and I'm trying to pick up the get up and go feeling.

On Saturday I received the fantastic news that my good friend Toni's daughter had given birth to a daughter of her own that Friday night - talk about circle of life!!!

Hugs

Caroline xx

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Addendum:

Today (Monday 31st) I got a call from my girlfriend that there had been some bad comments about me from the Scottish members of the family that came down last week too.

They are worried that my girlfriend's brother will get some stick for his sister being my girlfriend. I have told her that I will be there for the funeral to support her, if me being at the service would distract people from thinking about the loss of her mother then I would stay away, but if its only about her brother (who is a drunk and a habitual drug taker) losing a bit of face among the rest of his druggie mates then fuck 'em, I'm going.

Hugs

Caroline x x x

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