Dedicated to Ted
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Apr 3 • 35M
Dedicated to Ted
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Dedicated to Ted
Gosh my heart is well and truly broken tonight. Just back from visiting my dear old dad. Took the poison and got covid anyway. He looked like a shadow, fading before my very eyes today. GP has lost two lots of bloods and samples for other issues, X ray results are taking months to come back. I could scream but no one is listening. This is a man who worked on his one and a half feet (train accident as a kid) from the age of 14, employed staff who were loyal to him for forty years as he's such a decent, kind man. Had to pay for his own hip and cataracts during lockdown, just in the vain hope of a game of golf. I remember in March 2020 praying every night that he wouldn't die in lockdown because no way could we have a shameful twelve people at his funeral. He is loved everywhere he goes. I went on a girls trip to Morocco five years ago. Was outside having a cig and making pleasantries with a German golfer staying at my hotel. Turns out he played golf with my dad in Hong Kong two decades ago and still keeps in touch with him! What are the chances? Sorry I'm rambling and thinking out loud. Now I am almost praying my father goes before the real shit becomes clear to those kind, trusting, decent people who just took the government advice, like he told me he regretted today. I feel murderous. And to think of good men like Ted ending their valuable, decent lives face down, devastated by alcohol, lonliness and hoplessness. It's too much. All of it. I feel like we're becoming trauma bonded. xx
There are no words for what those bastards did. My Dad has dementia and mum looked after him at home throughout the shit show and continues to do so. She is an absolute legend. I’m so glad we never stopped visiting and supporting them.
And don’t get me started on Bridgen!
RIP Ted and Steve’s dad.