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Anniversary
In June 2010 my wife
Ita and myself celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary with a
long weekend in the beautiful City of Rome. While there we
reflected on how sweet our life was and how fortunate we were to have
three lovely children in Claire (19), Owen (16) and Sarah (15). However
in the weekend following our return from Rome our perfect existence was
to be torn apart.
In the early hours of
Sunday morning the 20th of June a Police Sergeant called at
our door with the news that our beautiful daughter, Sarah was being
rushed by ambulance to the Ulster Hospital. She uttered the
chilling words “your daughter has a very faint pulse but there are no
respiratory signs”. Sarah had gone out that sunny Saturday
afternoon to shop with friends in town. She was then going to a
sleepover/end of term party at a friends house. We hugged her and
told her to be careful in town and that we would see her the next
morning.
When we got to the
Hospital a Nurse told us that they were working on Sarah and that we
could wait in a small private room. After about twenty minutes a
team of doctors and nurses came in to inform us that they had not been
able to save our sweet and beautiful child.
The next few days were
a nightmare as we struggled to come to terms with what had happened.
Sarah's funeral was the biggest that the local parlour had ever dealt
with, a testimony to how popular our girl was. She had a wide
circle of friends, had achieved a high level in ballet, attended speech
and drama classes and was a very hardworking and very academic pupil. |
