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67Rob
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 Posted - 17/06/2012 : 16:16:36
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My Grandad hasn't been well for the past month and I've just been told he's in hospital on a ventilator with interstitial lung disease.
He is fully aware of what's going on and the thing he is most upset about is knowing he will never be going back to his home again. Ever.
He can't stand up because his balance has gone and he keeps having spasms down his right side caused by lack of oxygen to the brain but is still trying to chat the nurses up.
I am SO glad that I went and saw him a couple of weeks ago, before he got worse, and sat with him for 5 hours, sharing a bottle of his favourite whisky (this was the last 'drink' he will ever have again) and recording him on video telling me about how and when he joined the army in 1938.
I know we all have to go sometime and he would have been 93 this September but it's still hard to see him like this, particularly when he told me of his involvement at The Battle of El Alamein and watching his friends get blown to bits....a REAL hard man, the likes of which we won't see again. 
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jamoca
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Posted - 17/06/2012 : 16:44:01
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I was just going to the same thing - what a handsome man. 
Thoughts go to you and your family, and to what sounds like celebrating the last moments of a great life well lived. |
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Th0mas25
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Posted - 17/06/2012 : 20:49:27
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Sorry to hear about this Rob, it's sad and hard to see him ill like you say, but sort of uplifting at the same time that your grandad still had his faculties about him and that you were/are still able to spend some quality time with him.
Having recorded him on video is great too, I'm sure so much knowledge and so many interesting stories have been lost over the years because we don't spend enough time with our elders. Best wishes Rob. |
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Badman_batman
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Posted - 17/06/2012 : 21:07:23
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Grand fathers are a wealth of just the most amazing information and stories, i miss mine and my heart goes out to you
I know how hard it is but it sounds like he lived a good life and he looks like he was a winner with the ladies
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murphster
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Posted - 17/06/2012 : 21:19:03
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Thats a great photo, sorry to hear about him.
Honestly we don't know we're born compared to what the old folks had to put up with. |
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67Rob
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Posted - 18/06/2012 : 18:22:09
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Thanks for all the replies, I shall pass on your thoughts to him.
I am going up the hospital tonight to see him though I've been told he has got worse since yesterday, the spasms are so bad that when he tried to read a newspaper he tore it to shreds a la Jack Douglas (the bloke with the twitch in the 'Carry On' films ). |
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luke3030
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Posted - 18/06/2012 : 19:07:16
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| Sorry to read this Rob. |
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nick65
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Posted - 18/06/2012 : 19:09:19
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Sorry to hear his Rob.He was a Robert Mitchum lookie likey when he was younger to my eyes.
Sounds like a decent feller ,big respect for being in the 8th army,that generation think some of us didn't respect what they did back in the war,But I do,massively.
My thoughts are with you both at this time. |
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nick65
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Posted - 18/06/2012 : 19:40:13
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Sorry to hear his Rob.He was a Robert Mitchum lookie likey when he was younger to my eyes.
Sounds like a decent feller ,big respect for being in the 8th army,that generation think some of us didn't respect what they did back in the war,But I do,massively.
My thoughts are with you both at this time. |
keep on keeping on...
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Me2.
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Posted - 19/06/2012 : 07:19:03
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| Sorry to hear that Rob - he sounds quite the character. *thumbs up* |
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