My sympathies to you Zippy and to all the family.
Think I have said here before but my wife is a Nurse in a Hospice and the care and compassion they are able to continue to give under the most emotional of circumstances never fails to amaze me.
Worst I remember my wife being was when they had a young mother in, she had refused treatment as it may have harmed her unborn child. Literally days after the birth, she was in the Hospice with her child and family. Her husband was trying to deal with a new baby and losing his wife at the same time. Everyone at the hospice rallied round for, I think, couple of weeks. Whether it be clinical staff, or office staff offering to "babysit" the older child, they all just did what they had to do to make her last days as peaceful as possible.
No matter how many patients you have had over the years, a young patient really hits hard with the staff emotionally. Think a large number of the staff needed emotional support after this young lady passed away.
Will never forget, when my mum died aged 47 and the priest saying to my gran and granda that no parent should ever have to deal with the death of their child. So true.
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