It was like when I came out of the hospital after surgery, they took over. My house was filled with people and they, I had no choice really, I couldn't do anything much. You know, I could just about get myself showered and dressed and that took ages.
And I had a friend who came down, one of my oldest girlfriends from, who lives in Cumbria, she came down for a week, the first week, after the first weekend, for that first week and she just took over, basically said to my daughter and my sister “look, I'm here for a week, you know, you'll be needed when I'm gone, I can only give you a week, but let me do everything”, and she did.
And since then my other sister, the one who flew back from Rome, she's just been my most incredible solid support. She's just unflinchingly, whatever I've needed, and she's done it, she hasn't said “Can I?, Do you want me to?” Or “what should I?” She's just done it. I mean more lately as I've become more well and everything, it's, you know, “Shall we?” or you know, she'll find it hard to know what to do with herself I should think after all this, but anyway. |
