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THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY PAGE! Many, if not all of you (through my moaning of aches and pains), will know by now that in October I am completing the Dublin Marathon in memory of my Dad. Yes I intend to complete 26+ miles without stopping! HELP!!! but in training I have already run over 620 miles....., with only one fall!
I have chosen to run for Myton Hospice, where my Dad spent his last days. Myton provide specialist palliative care for patients with advanced progressive life limiting illness. This includes medical and nursing care, pain and symptom control, rehabilitation, therapies, spiritual support and bereavement care. All of which may I say come with a friendly smile.
My Dad, Phil Senior
Dad had been diagnosed with acute diverticulitis, and in December 2007, was to receive an operation to improve his quality of life, having been housebound for several months. This was not to be. On admittance to hospital, he was told he was too underweight to operate and a full CAT Scan revealed what had not been found previously - advanced bowel and liver cancer. After diagnosis, it was almost as if he had given up the fight for life. He deteriorated rapidly and on 28 December we were transferred to Myton hospice at Warwick. I say, ‘We’, because as I found out at Myton, it is not only the inpatient who receives care, all family & friends of the patient do. Dad spent 23 days at Myton, each day hanging in for another, accompanied by the odd Speckled Hen and the sounds of his old time favourites, Al Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Doris Day amongst others. Although often difficult and painful to watch, a place like Myton gave us treasured time to be together, to reflect, and in his lucid moments hear stories of times gone by. All of you who knew my Dad, know how much he loved life and how proud & surprised he would be to find me running a marathon. I hope he is watching from his ‘brewery in the sky!
If you have a minute or 2 take a look at my photos, there's a picture showing him join in the warm up of a Race for Life that Nicole and I had entered in 2006!
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