FatherKnowsBest
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Andy Fordham, The Viking, once World Darts Champion, gone at 59... RIP
The Bill Werbeniuk of darts.Andy Fordham, The Viking, once World Darts Champion, gone at 59... RIP
Used to like him back in the day, debilitating illness that he’s probably better off on the other side condolences go out to his family
rip Tom
Sorry to hear of your Dad having had Parkinsons Pops,it must have been horrible to see your Dad like that.UTBMy dear old Dad passed after 15 years of Parkinsons, and I agree. Horrible illness. Your brains fine, but your body won't work. What a dreadful ordeal for him...
It’s horrible to witness but for those that have to go through itI think its the same with any long illness like Alzheimers Rod, but where Dementia takes the brain and leaves the body Parkinsons is the other way round. His quality of life had totally gone five years before he died. Its very cruel really. I can't even think about how he felt, its too sad. If he'd been a dog, he would have been put down to prevent further suffering.
My Dad had Heart trouble for 20 years before he passed away and there were times when we thought we were gunna lose him before he did die in November 1990, but he thankfully managed some sort of a normal life for most of them 20 years.What i do remember is everytime i heard or saw a Ambulance in and around the Village and i wasn't at home i used to hope & pray it wasn't for my Dad.I can't imagine how awful it must have been seeing your Dad life slipping away like that mi owd pal.UTBI think its the same with any long illness like Alzheimers Rod, but where Dementia takes the brain and leaves the body Parkinsons is the other way round. His quality of life had totally gone five years before he died. Its very cruel really. I can't even think about how he felt, its too sad. If he'd been a dog, he would have been put down to prevent further suffering.
Mike Hendrick ex Derbyshire&England has sadly passed away.He was a very good cricketer i think.RIP Mike.UTB
As a young lad I can’t remember my dad having any illness but Sadly he went in Sheffield Royal for an ulcer operation and died after having it. That was in 1958 and he was 45 years of age. Left my mother with 5 children and I was second eldest at 15 and just started work. Good job I had because my £4 fifteen shillings a week wages helped my mother. It was a pittance of a widows widows pension she received and a few shillings family allowance. It was a struggle for her to bring the family up but with free school meals for the three younger siblings and help from my Grannie (God bless her) with the war pension she received for my grandad from the First World War. It could have been a Children’s home otherwise. I remember it like it was yesterday.My Dad had Heart trouble for 20 years before he passed away and there were times when we thought we were gunna lose him before he did die in November 1990, but he thankfully managed some sort of a normal life for most of them 20 years.What i do remember is everytime i heard or saw a Ambulance in and around the Village and i wasn't at home i used to hope & pray it wasn't for my Dad.I can't imagine how awful it must have been seeing your Dad life slipping away like that mi owd pal.UTB
As a young lad I can’t remember my dad having any illness but Sadly he went in Sheffield Royal for an ulcer operation and died after having it. That was in 1958 and he was 45 years of age. Left my mother with 5 children and I was second eldest at 15 and just started work. Good job I had because my £4 fifteen shillings a week wages helped my mother. It was a pittance of a widows widows pension she received and a few shillings family allowance. It was a struggle for her to bring the family up but with free school meals for the three younger siblings and help from my Grannie (God bless her) with the war pension she received for my grandad from the First World War. It could have been a Children’s home otherwise. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Harrowing tale that Charlie mi owd pal.UTBAs a young lad I can’t remember my dad having any illness but Sadly he went in Sheffield Royal for an ulcer operation and died after having it. That was in 1958 and he was 45 years of age. Left my mother with 5 children and I was second eldest at 15 and just started work. Good job I had because my £4 fifteen shillings a week wages helped my mother. It was a pittance of a widows widows pension she received and a few shillings family allowance. It was a struggle for her to bring the family up but with free school meals for the three younger siblings and help from my Grannie (God bless her) with the war pension she received for my grandad from the First World War. It could have been a Children’s home otherwise. I remember it like it was yesterday.