Au revoir, until we meet again

Xmas day, 2007

This day is for the children, but I am allowed to feel sad or cry as I will be at the hospice.

This was Andrea’s last entry into the diary, so I don’t know what her thoughts were in the final few days, but I did spend the last evening with her on the 30^th December, where she finally got her haircut, and she looked so cute.

On New Year’s Eve, the Hospice called to say, Andrea had gone downhill and they had upped her painkillers and given her sedatives. I went over with Dad, but neither of us thought she would be gone by the end of the day, but it seems Andrea wanted to finish the year off tidily. 

At around ten to nine, Andrea came too briefly and the nurses came in and settled her, as they left the room, she took a breath in and didn’t exhale. Her hand was held tightly in mine.