Kerry Nowell
Unfortunately on the 7th Nov 2009, my beautiful very special sister Kerry died very suddenly. To say I was devastated would be a gross understatement.
Kerry was 50 years old, just 16 months younger than me, and for those 50 years she was my best friend. We lived just doors away from each other during most of our married lives with our children growing up together.
We were there to support each other when our mother died last August, and she was the rock I leaned on whenever I had any problems. (As I was for her).
The only “comfort” I get (if you can call it comfort) is the knowledge that she died so suddenly, there could have been no pain whatsover.
The pain of knowing I’ll never see her lovely smile again just dulls, I’m sure it will never go away.
To cap everything, on the 4th Dec I had to go into hospital and have some major surgery, (I’m still not back at work yet), so I’ve been in a very dark place for a number of weeks.
It’s only been the last 2 weeks that I’ve felt able to even start thinking about newsletters and IM on a serious basis again. But I can practically hear Kerry telling me to get off my backside (so to speak), and get back to work. (She was the more practical of any of us and could be extremely bossy and managing lol).
So that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve picked myself up, dusted myself down, gritted my teeth and I’m ready to face the world again…
I’m not going to make this a long post, there isn’t much I can add to what I’ve said. I’ll just finish by saying that 2009 was a rough year, I’m really hoping to see improvements from 2010.
