I will be going guild free, not because Andy was particularly interested in rugby but because he did love travelling. We’d already been on 6 holidays together this year, and he’d managed to fit in another 3 by himself. In fact even though we were departing for Japan on the 16th and had only got back from Tel Aviv at the end of September on Sunday 6th October he booked himself a day trip to Dublin for the 8th of October. He died on the 7th.
Because he was so determined and wouldn’t let the constraints of dialysis stop him doing what he wanted to do (to the chagrin of his consultants over the years...) it was easy to forget day to day just how ill he was. He would have hated being confined to hospital or the house as a result of illness. His life was far too short, but he lived it exactly how he wanted and was able to life to the full. And that approach has created memories I will never forget.
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