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I've been humming and ha-ing about whether to post this, and where, and visible to whom, for a while...
My mother is dying. She got breast cancer in 1999, and after chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy, and five years without cancer, was given a clean bill of health. Unfortunately, it appears they didn't get all the cancer cells, and it came back, having metastatised to her bones (where it was inoperable), in late 2010. It's now metastatised further still, and she's been told she's got weeks to live, or could possibly even die overnight at any time.
When the time comes—which I'm hoping won't be until after I've got to say goodbye to her (tomorrow), and she's got to celebrate her birthday (Friday), and (purely for selfish reasons) after I've got to celebrate Simchas Torah in a week and a half—the funeral and shiva will be in Newcastle.
I appreciate that it's a long way for all of you to come, but it still makes me sad that it's going to be entirely my parents' friends turning up, and none of my own. So I thought I'd let you know in advance, on the offchance any of you could plan to turn up in advance, which you would not be prepared to do at zero notice. (Don't feel under any obligation, though.)
My mother is dying. She got breast cancer in 1999, and after chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy, and five years without cancer, was given a clean bill of health. Unfortunately, it appears they didn't get all the cancer cells, and it came back, having metastatised to her bones (where it was inoperable), in late 2010. It's now metastatised further still, and she's been told she's got weeks to live, or could possibly even die overnight at any time.
When the time comes—which I'm hoping won't be until after I've got to say goodbye to her (tomorrow), and she's got to celebrate her birthday (Friday), and (purely for selfish reasons) after I've got to celebrate Simchas Torah in a week and a half—the funeral and shiva will be in Newcastle.
I appreciate that it's a long way for all of you to come, but it still makes me sad that it's going to be entirely my parents' friends turning up, and none of my own. So I thought I'd let you know in advance, on the offchance any of you could plan to turn up in advance, which you would not be prepared to do at zero notice. (Don't feel under any obligation, though.)
