On Thursday November 26 2015 13:12, you wrote to David Rance:
DR>> However, I've not really been in the swim of things for a couple DR>> of months now. In September my dear wife died.
BF> Yikes! How do you cope with something like that?
One just does. I know, I speak from experience, unfortunately. In august 1996 my wife Marieke dropped down next to me on a camping on Falster Island, Denmark. The trip in the ambulance with wailing sirens was of no avail. *1) Later that week I returned home with her ashes in the trunk. It was the closest I could get to "samen uit, samen thuis". It was a long and lonely drive. But... as they say, time heals all wounds. It is true. The hard part is getting through the bottom of the curve. It took me two years to climb out of it and get back on track. Sort of...
In 2001, I met Rosa. We married and started living together in 2010. We are happy together.
BF> When my dear Anita had her hip joint surgery a week ago, my worst BF> nightmare was to get a phone call from the hospital telling me that BF> there were some complications, blah, blah, blah...
Same here when Rosa crushed her shoulder in a nasty fall *2) and had to go through surgery for a shoulder protesis. All went well.
=== And now for something completekly different... ===
*1) Extrapolating on another topic somewhere: there was no cost for the ambulance and the hospital. Apparently medical care is (was?) free in Demmerk, even for foreigners. I had to pay the undertaker though.
*2) Accidents in and around the house are still in the top of the statistics of fatalities. The chance of getting killed or seriously wounded in a terrorist attack is much, much lower. Even after 13/11.
