Goodbye Daddy & New Stuff
Hello. Well first things first, my Dad passed away last Sunday, after a 15 hour struggle with his breathing, and a three year battle with Cancer.
My brother, mum and I had spent pretty much 4 days at the hospital, and we all slept at the hospital. My brother’s girlfriend Nat was with us a lot of the time, and she helped out so much from making up cups of tea, to returning home and looking after our doggies. So a massive, massive thank you to her.
Because my Dad died from Mesothelioma Cancer (a type of Cancer caused by Asbestos) there are a lot of laws and procedures which will affect what happens next. For example, it is the law that sufferers of industrial diseases must have a post mortem and an inquest for claims and insurance purposes. To cut a long story short - my Mum has got her lawyer to ensure our Dad does not need to have a post mortem, though we will still have to have the inquest. So the funeral won’t be for two weeks, and we are not able to have any death certificates until after the inquest.
To top all that off, on the Monday we got a phone call that night asking if at 4.00pm the previous day my Dad had made a penny transaction to the carphone warehouse on his credit card. Well my Dad died at 4.21pm so it was highly unlikely he had, and when we told the bank this, they cancelled the card. Apparently, someone was trying to clone the card, and the penny transaction is meant to be a ‘test’ to check if the card works. Bastards! How dare they try to steal my Dad’s money as he lay dying? It’s despicable.
I don’t like to dwell on this sad stuff for too long, and therefore haven’t gone into all the details here, but my Dad died with his family all around him, and we hugged him right up until his last breath.
The worst thing for me is that it hasn’t even sunk in. I got a plate out for my Dad when I cooked dinner the other night and if I’m on my own and the house phone rings, I jump up to get it - as I think it might be him calling from hospital. I think it’ll sink in after the funeral.
Now, to lighten the mood, and to try and cheer you up after my sad and depressing story, I’ll let you in to a secret. I think today I might update my version of WordPress, and perhaps update this layout too.
I still have a lot of content to add, but the problem is reading my scrawling handwriting and typing it up into something legible! So if the mood takes me, I’ll even look into adding some new stuff today.
Posted By Carly On: Saturday 12th April, 2008
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7 Comments On: Goodbye Daddy & New Stuff »
Sorry to hear about your father.
And yes - people are bastards for scamming money
I’m really sorry to hear about your dad…
Hey Carly! I’m really sorry to hear about the things which happens the last days!!!!
*hugs*
Sorry to hear about your dad.
Thank you everyone
Sorry that your dad finally lost his battle Carlster, if you need a chat or anything you know every on Sway forum is there for you *hugs*
You know what I’d like to do to the fuckfaces that were trying to scam your dads credit card? I wonder how it’d feel to have some gouge your eyes out with a blunt piece of plastic? hmm.
Hi Carly
First of all, let me offer my deepest and sincerest condolences regarding the sad departure of your Dad.
Just to let you know if ever you need anyone to lend you a sympathetic ear or anything at all for that matter, whatever will help you to get through, you know where I am.
Also sorry to hear about the cloning of your Dad’s credit card. How can anyone be so evil and selfish, especially at such a vunerable and sensitive time. Rest assured, they will recieve the punishment they deserve one day.
You will find when you return to work that I’m no longer there. Tony and Barcs told me that although they cannot fault my enthusiasm and attitude, I need to go away and become of a higher standard as I wasn’t working as fast and efficiently as they would like. I put that down to lack of confidence as I was always frightened of making mistakes and so subsequently was feeling the need to check and double check things. Nevertheless, everything happens for a reason so best to just soldier on and see what happens.
The Powerful Words http://www.powerfulwords.co.uk site is now live however and so I would appreciate any constructive critism you may have.
I’ve been told to get back to them in a couple of months when I feel I’m ready so until then, I’m focusing my energies on trying to do some freelance work. Any suggestions? I’m down but not defeated and am determined to proove this to them so any experience along the way would be like gold dust.
It’s the company social on Saturday at 19:30 at Ziggi’s in Notts. I’m still invited to this, so would be great if you could make it (depending on how you’re feeling of course). If not maybe we could catch up sometime for a drink? Your shouT.
Anyway take care and if I don’t see you soon, I’ll see you in a couple of months.
P.s sorry about the waffle, bad case of verbal diarrhea but guess you’re used to that by now.
Take care and God bless
Phill x
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