Stories from: Skanda Vale Hospice

 

Prescient dream

I was 18 and discovered my mother had got breast cancer.  I’d had a strange and somewhat prescient dream the

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So wrong

My father was diagnosed and treated for lung cancer (aged 59) in North Middlesex Hospital. I took him for his

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The funny side

The funny side of my Dad’s death: My 3 sisters and I gathered at his bedside in hospital just as

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He decided

John Seymour – father of self-sufficiency. After his big 90th birthday, he decided his time had come. He stopped eating,

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