Our garden was a “work in progress’’ when Olivier died and at his funeral I told the congregation that it would now become his memorial garden. I shared that we had intended to add roses, irises, flowering hibiscus and deciduous trees to the eclectic planting selection of landscape designer Diana McGregor. We had meant to […]
It is time to share with you that my darling husband, Olivier Foubert died peacefully on Friday, May 11, after a 16-month journey with advanced prostate cancer. One of my Facebook friends wrote that I was so privileged with “the main event of life”, which she says is to experience love at a deep and […]
Another four months have slipped by since I wrote you a note, but our life is a little like a ship rolling in high seas – one is on the verge of seasickness all the time and it’s a daily problem to stay steady on one’s feet. Ours is now a home hospice and I […]
Once more beloved husband Olivier arrives home from hospital, but this time by ambulance. This is a special home-coming, though, because the other option was to send him to a hospice. Even though his two doctors thought he was too ill for home care, I am delighted that he is back home here with me […]
Australia’s first professor of palliative care originally set out in the world to become a medical missionary. But life and fate had other ideas, as SAMELA HARRIS reports on the man some people call… * * * IT’S as if an aura of serenity surrounds him. When Professor Ian Maddocks steps into a room, […]
Our petit chien, cute puppy Oscar has metamorphised. We thought we bought a Shi Tsu Maltese X with a shaggy, long-haired coat just like his mother. And, sure we saw the daddy dog, a handsome grey poodle, but our little bundle of joy was surely mainly Maltese, he wasusuch an adorable puffball. How wrong […]
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