Black Cat Bone

The Fish wrote:Thank you and God bless you Gordon Charles Raymond Clarke

My Dad has just died. WEnt round for lunch as I do every Sunday and found him sprawled on the sofa,

Not a total shock , I knew this day was coming sooner rather than later. He'd only just received a cancer diagnosis and refused all radio/chemotherapy, which would involve travelling from Worthing to Brighton amd he really just couldn't face the hassle. He was fairly sanguine and I think he just knew his time had come. From working as a hosital porter in later years before retiring, he was obviously aware of certain procedures and I noticed today that a week or two back he had organised a Do Not Resuscitate order.

Thankfully the neighbour heard him on FRiday so this could only have been Friday or Saturday night as he was getting ready for bed. He had pajama bottoms half on/hal off. THe thought that he might have been lying there all week is something I really couldn;t bear to contemplate.

I'm thankful he was at least spared a slow horrible death from cancer and it seems yo have been sudden.

It was a strange sensation with the two of us in the room. Who knows how you would react. I just recall through the tears muttering Goodbye you dear sweet man. And he was. He did more for me that anyone could imagine. I don't recall any disagreement or falling out throughout my adult life, I have had nothing but total unconditional love from him my whole life, and I feel blesed indeed.

So the moral of the story is tell those you love you love them today. Tomorrow may be too late

The Fish wrote:[b]I'm thankful he was at least spared a slow horrible death from cancer and it seems yo have been sudden.

It was a strange sensation with the two of us in the room. Who knows how you would react. I just recall through the tears muttering Goodbye you dear sweet man. And he was. He did more for me that anyone could imagine. I don't recall any disagreement or falling out throughout my adult life, I have had nothing but total unconditional love from him my whole life, and I feel blesed indeed.

So the moral of the story is tell those you love you love them today. Tomorrow may be too late

The Fish wrote:Thank you everyone for the kind words. I'm doing fine, although in a bit of a state of flux right now. Things I need to do, but currently waiting on coroner's office to ring back with details of releasing death certificate without which I can't do much at all, so I'm just sat here (with no BCB cup ties left to vote on).

The Fish wrote:As luck would have it, coroners office rang back about 10 minutes after the post above. Cause of death was given as bronchial pneumonia. Now have appointment Thursday with registrar to get certificate and start to move things forward.

sloopjohnc wrote:I'm not crazy about indulgent grandparents who let their kids into a gym where people are working out and then not supervising them so they don't take people's keys.

sloopjohnc wrote:Now that I'm not drinking and smoking, I've started running. My apartment complex has a nice gym so I've been running three miles each night on the treadmill. Reaching for a towel I keep handy, my keys fell out of my pocket and slid down the treadmill and landed on the floor behind me.

Some grandparents let their little granddaughter in the gym while I was working out, but I didn't take much mind. When I finished running, I looked for my keys and they were gone. I looked around the treadmill, under it, but couldn't find them. I saw the grandparents and kid and asked them if they'd picked up some keys, but they didn't understand English. I went to the office and they didn't have a spare, but one of the office staff offered to come back with me to the gym and help find it.

I glanced at a stand near the front of the gym and there were a set of keys. I asked the office guy to come out to the mailbox because if they fit there, then they were mine, and I could get in my apartment. They were and all was good.

But it kinda pissed me off that some grandparents would let their grandchild in the gym and didn't supervise her enough to not take my keys, because I suspect they found she had them and put them there because they weren't there before and they weren't by treadmill. I'm not crazy about indulgent grandparents who let their kids into a gym where people are working out and then not supervising them so they don't take people's keys.

sloopjohnc wrote:Now that I'm not drinking and smoking, I've started running. My apartment complex has a nice gym so I've been running three miles each night on the treadmill. Reaching for a towel I keep handy, my keys fell out of my pocket and slid down the treadmill and landed on the floor behind me.

Some grandparents let their little granddaughter in the gym while I was working out, but I didn't take much mind. When I finished running, I looked for my keys and they were gone. I looked around the treadmill, under it, but couldn't find them. I saw the grandparents and kid and asked them if they'd picked up some keys, but they didn't understand English. I went to the office and they didn't have a spare, but one of the office staff offered to come back with me to the gym and help find it.

I glanced at a stand near the front of the gym and there were a set of keys. I asked the office guy to come out to the mailbox because if they fit there, then they were mine, and I could get in my apartment. They were and all was good.

But it kinda pissed me off that some grandparents would let their grandchild in the gym and didn't supervise her enough to not take my keys, because I suspect they found she had them and put them there because they weren't there before and they weren't by treadmill. I'm not crazy about indulgent grandparents who let their kids into a gym where people are working out and then not supervising them so they don't take people's keys.

The Fish wrote:As luck would have it, coroners office rang back about 10 minutes after the post above. Cause of death was given as bronchial pneumonia. Now have appointmentment Thursday with registrar to get certificate and start to move things forward.

Harvey K-Tel wrote:

sloopjohnc wrote:I'm not crazy about indulgent grandparents who let their kids into a gym where people are working out and then not supervising them so they don't take people's keys.

If I had a nickel for every time that's happened to me, I could afford a private gym!