This photo is taken on the right day but just a catch up, so no comments are necessary... but I thank you all for you comment if you do...
As I treat this project as a semi-diary, I will try to detail the day as it was...
This is the view from my chldhood bedroom window.... We moved here in 1978 when I was 9 and I left here to move to work in London when I was 20... My parents still call it my bedroom.!
It was another day in hospital, being told that whatever treatment dad received, he wasn't responding to and that any operation would hasten his end.
As a family, we discussed the news and agreed that as he would not survive an operation, the best course of action would be to induce a medical coma and dose Dad up with morphine and other painkillers and allow "nature to take it's course".
Whlst sounding harsh, he would not have survived an operation that perhaps a younger person might and despite the hospital's best efforts, he would only have been in extreme pain just to extend his life a little longer..
that a difficult decision to make i know because i made the same one with my mum - however no regrets on my part because as you say it would only have lengthened her life for a very short period of time with no quality
Oh Andy I've been there too - Ed's Nanna was poorly and his parents were abroad/uncontactable ... it's an awful lose:lose situation and I really truly sympathise. Lovely thoughtful shot.
@mrssmith and you call yourself an English teacher Mrs S... few/view :-)... C minus I reckon :-).... Seriously tho, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I know you have suffered greatly and appreciate everything you and all these great folk on this site have said over these last few days... Sometimes the comfort from 'strangers' is so very, very comforting isn't it...
The view out of your childhood window probably takes you back to the times when life was simple. Keep those memories of your father alive. Remember him that way. Decisions like this are never easy.... You are in my thoughts. (Edited.....!)
@filsie65 thanks Phl... yes, that must of been a very traumatic time, I can appreciate how hard it would have been for you.. thank you for you kind thoughts and words :-) @mortisa thanks jane, yeah it was / wasn't easy if that makes sense... easy in that you wanted the pain to end, hard because you knew where that decision went...
Oh Andy, I didn't realise when I wrote my previous posts. I had to make a similar decision about my mum. What a way to make you feel like a proper grown up? Hope the rest of the family are ok, such a tough decision but life really is about quality not quantity.
@mortisa thanks jane, yeah it was / wasn't easy if that makes sense... easy in that you wanted the pain to end, hard because you knew where that decision went...
thanks you all for the kind comments