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Originally Posted by MarillionFan
I posted on here because I thought it might be a month or so before the inevitable. I didnt realise it was going to take 24 hours!
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I know what you mean. Some years ago, an uncle of mine who had been a good friend to me during a troubled time was diagnosed with liver cancer. Although he lived close by, he had many visitors, and his wife asked me to wait a few days before coming round to see him on the basis that he was tiring rapidly and I could easily pop round when the rush had subsided.
Three days after the diagnosis had been made, my parents (he was my father's elder brother) were travelling up to see him (about 90 minutes journey). Before setting off they phoned his wife to make sure he was well enough to see them. They were reassured to learn that, though weak, he was indeed well enough for them to visit.
By the time they arrived, he had died.
I'm still sad that I wasn't able to see him, but I feel much more for my father, who had so many more reasons to want to say goodbye - this was his elder brother, who'd cheered him up in air raid shelters during the Blitz on Liverpool's docks, near which they lived.
Since then I've lost a couple of friends to cancer that overwhelms them in the space of weeks, and it's truly terrible when somebody dies within such a short time after the first signs of illness.
You and your friend's family have my heartfelt commiserations.
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