Gareth Barry Conlon
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Sorry for your loss. Don't be hard on yourself. Sounds a lot like how my nan passed away. She'd gone upstairs and fallen at the top of the stairs. My mum was in the house and heard her fall and she was gone by the time she got there. She was 92. For some reason that I won't get into they did a postmortem and she had had a massive heart attack. It wasn't the fall, it was just the exertion of gong up the stairs. My mum wasn't pleased they were going to do a postmortem but in the end it made her feel better that it was so quick.Had a call to say she wasn't answering her phone.
I left work and went round, she had fallen and had passed away.
She had turned the lights and telly off and was on her way to bed.
She fell last week and I offered to stay with her for a few days but she said no.
I feel so guilty, I should have insisted. She was 89.
I'm fucking gutted. If I'd been there it might not have happened.
She was a lovely, kind woman, never judged anyone or anything.
She grew up with nothing, yet spent the latter years of her life working in a charity shop.
Born in alty, as was I, she was a red, and loved United as much as I love city. Her dad was blue, so i guessed she rebelled, as i did. She didn't mind at all that I chose city.
We watched the Derby together on Sunday, I don't begrudge her that win, and she never ever gloated.
We watched it hand in hand, I think she knew her time was near.
She was almost happy for city's successful recent years, she had seen enough red success to last a lifetime.
I'm so sad, when my dad went I didn't lose my dad, because he had dementia, I lost the guy that used to be my dad. Somehow that made it easier.
I've lost a wonderful human being that I'm so lucky to have had as a mum.
Sorry for the long type, I just needed to let it out.
RIP Sylvia
We all have to go some way and making it to 90 in your own home and being relatively healthy to the end is a great innings. All the best.