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| marleneandgypo |
Sad tonightHi everyoneNothing at all to do with Langeleben, but just wanted to share something sad for me. On Thursday night I had two prayers for the all mighty, one was for Chris Hayles, who is pulling through for now and the other for my 'little' cousin Andreas from Paderborn who is a health practioner. Andreas got the flu from one of his patients before Christmas and last week developed double pneumonia which spread to his sinuses. He went into a coma last weekend. CT scan wasn't promising and they said they would do another on Friday and if it was the same they would take him off life support. They did and he came off life support and died immediately. He was in his late forties with a wife and two young daughters. His mum died a few months ago so I can only imagine how it is for my uncle. Being a few years older than Andreas I used to look after him and wheel his pram up and down and I remember one time we were playing Hansel and Gretel and I was the wicked witch. My brother was Hansel and Andreas got into a right 2 & 8 sayin "I don't want to be Gretel" I am a bit sad tonight. we weren't particularly close in later years but any loss at a youngish age is sad isn't it? I feel sad for his family and my mum too. Poor old mum she lost my dad and her sister and grandson and now this. she was all of a dither tonight asking me what they do in heaven all the time as you can only do so much singing...bless her. I hope no one minds me talking here about his. I don't need sympathy, I am fine, just wanted to talk really. Love Marlene |
| Tom Neal |
Hello Marlene,
I get updates on Chris from the R Signals Yahoo site but also sorry to hear about Andreas. As you say you do not want sympathy so I am not offering it but just to say I am thinking of you. Tom |
| robbie mccallum |
no sypathyHI MARLENE,AS TOM SAYS ITS NOT SYPATHY,I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU,ITS THE AGE THING AS WELL NOT VERY OLD AT ALL,DID YOU EVER GO DOWN TO DEUTSCHES HAUSE?IT WAS OUR LITTLE DISCO,ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PLACES,IN KONIGSLUTTER,ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND CLIVE |
| paul croxson |
Marlene
At 72 (well, less a week or so) I constantly face the thought that 'it', life won't go on much longer particularly after a couple of doses of cancer and another test next month. Life, however, is very good indeed and I do not want to leave any of it behind and I am fortunate but when someone like my daughter's partner and your Andreas dies before their 'due time' I find it difficult to see any divine hand unless one would believe that God is evil. You, on the other hand have a good and strong faith and in that you are blessed and surely better able to cope. My thoughts are with you. |
| marleneandgypo |
Many thanks Tom, Robbie and Paul.
It is indeed a shame when someone so young dies. Andreas would have been 50 in May. When I was in Langeleben he was just 8 and he had quit a little crush on my bless him. I used to go there for long weekends. I would work in Langeleben 7 days and evenings straight for about 6 weeks (which was no hardship as I still had afternoons and Saturday nights off), then take a long weekend in Paderborn. They lived near Sennelager. Yes Robbie I did go to the Deutsche Haus disco. I remember going with Robbo Richardson one time. Clive was on the dance floor with his big hat and sunglasses dancing quietly to himself on the dance floor as he used to. Whatever happened top that big hat? I would like to point out that I didn't go out with Clive while I was in Langeleben as he was a complete nutter. Marlene |
| Mike Hudson |
Sad tonightAy up me duck, I know you didn't ask for sympathy but it doesn't mean I cannot offer it. I won't go into Chris as you know, I know as much about him as you perhaps and although we (Chris and I),have only met the once, he is someone I instantly felt an affinity with. The one thing that has amazed me, however, is the plethora of people who have only known him through his varous sites and love the guy to bits, as do we.With regard to your Andreas, I don't know how close you were but it is always sad to lose a relative. Apart from unknown cousins, both Hilary and I have no immediate realtives left, other than our two sons, who were adopted. It isn't the dying, it isn't the crying but the memories they have left, cherish them. I can't remember who said that but it's true, for as long as you remember and recall they are not forgotten. Trouble is chuck, once you get to a certain age and I have, when you try to ring people on the TV remote and change channels with your mobile and the first thing you do when you get your local paper is turn to the 'Hatch, Match and Despatch' the latter being first, it becomes a part of life. What a depressing old Sod I am, I'm off to lust at the Starship website before I get suicidal. Pharticus |
| marleneandgypo |
Thanks to all who had a kind word to say about Andreas my cousin. The funeral is tomorrow (Monday). I am fine myself but it is very sad for his wife and their daughters and his dad who lost his wife just a few months ago.
This is a link to the practice and he is in the first picture and his wife in the second, this was only taken last month just before he got infected, he was 49: http://ludwig.paderigo.de/index.p...p;func=viewcategory&catid=109 Thanks again everyone. Marlene |
| Mike Hudson |
Sad tonightAy up 'Comely Wench', I hope this is a site where we can talk on any subject, voice our grievances, fears, thoughts, hopes, ask for help on whatever, pass on whatever from a good recipe to anything which we think the rabble may benefit from.I have to say that looking at his (Andreas) photo, he looked a picture of health, it just goes to show that Death is no respecter of age or person. It does, however, show the risks that those who strive to protect us take and generally go either unrecognised or ignored. If you were close once, then you still were, the fact that you lead seperate lives in different countries does not mean you stopped your feelings for one another. I have cousins in Wales that I have not seen for years but I still love them and would seriously mourn their death. Old Phart Grey Grumpy and ?????  
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