After having a chuckle with my last one
I reckon it's worth posting this here.

A few years back, as I've mentioned before, my mum passed away quite suddenly from cancer of the stomach. I took her into hospital on the 5th of January, and she passed away on the 5th of February. In the two weeks after she was diagnosed, she went downhill very rapidly, and in the final week she was very groggy, sleeping most of the time and had a few wee hallucinations. It was heartbreaking to watch my mum be so brave as the doctors found every way they could not to tell us there was nothing they could do.

In that last week, a nurse came in to.... do whatever it was she had to do, my memories of those times are reasonably vague. What I do remember is how nice that nurse was, how she chatted and joked with my mum who, although she was so weak she could hardly lift her head, smiled and laughed along with her.

I never said anything to the nurse, my mum was transferred home 2 days later so we never saw her again. I remember now thinking how I should get something for the nurses, just a card or something small to thank them for how they cared for my mum in the last days, but with everything going so fast, I just forgot.

Nurses are ace. I'll never know how they manage to do the job that they do.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 2:09, 1 reply)

It's never too late to say 'thank you'
You could still send a card, it would be appreciated even after this much time.

Cards are appreciated and proudly displayed on wards. They reassure other patients that the staff are doing a good job and will look after them too.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 14:48, closed)