Last year my nan spent Christmas in hospital with a heart condition. Whilst we visited her everyday, even Christmas day, the nurses still gave her a little present that someone had donated to the ward for everyone who had to spend Christmas there. She was over the moon with it. Just some cheap lotions and potions (which she couldn't use because of her chronic psoriasis) but just the gesture made the fact that she was away from her family just a little bit more bearable.
Sadly she passed away on my mum's birthday in March this year. Yesterday I took a shoe box filed with lotions and potions and other bits and bobs that my mum had put together down to the ward where my nan died so that they can pass on the kindness she received.
I was not prepared for how emotional it would be returned in to the ward where I last saw her. Where I watched her take her last breaths. It is weird. I never cried when she died, I think i went into control mode trying to sort things out for my mum but I am feeling very emotional right now.  |
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What a lovely thing to do and much appreciated i bet!
The first Christmas after a loved one has passed away is hard and a very emotional time. Shedding a tear on re-visiting the ward is to be expected. X
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(((Big hugs)))
Drove past hospital where my son died on Sunday. I felt a pang even though it's been twenty six years and I've even been admitted there several times since, it still affects me.
Your loss is still fresh. Think of your nan, smile and remember the good times xx |
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