Finally...
May. 17th, 2018 06:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilySo, tomorrow is our niece's funeral, two months after she died. It's been the legal side that's held things up. The driver was allowed 28 days before being questioned due to the shock he suffered. Then he was allowed a second post mortem, which he asked for. Still don't know what that would show that the first one didn't. Then there's the usual delay around organising a funeral. Still, we're finally there.
We spent a lot of time with her when she was a kid, given that she was only a month older than our daughter. We used to take up to seven kids - our two and an assortment of nephews and nieces - for long days out, to the beach at Formby or over the river on the ferry. She wasn't as enthusiastic as the other kids but I hope she had some good memories of those days.
Now, we're left with a sense of loss more than anything. We hadn't seen her since her mother's funeral two years ago but we were all on facebook, so it felt like we were in touch. There's also a sense of shock, and the realisation that it could easily have been our daughter. Or even our son - he walks home from work late at night.
Tomorrow really marks the end of our involvement, but her brothers and uncle will have the inquest and any future trial to go through. I suspect we'll see more of my brother-in-law who will want my husband's support, even if it's only as a pair of ears. But that's what big brothers are for, right?
Well, that's all for now. See you next week, DW!
We spent a lot of time with her when she was a kid, given that she was only a month older than our daughter. We used to take up to seven kids - our two and an assortment of nephews and nieces - for long days out, to the beach at Formby or over the river on the ferry. She wasn't as enthusiastic as the other kids but I hope she had some good memories of those days.
Now, we're left with a sense of loss more than anything. We hadn't seen her since her mother's funeral two years ago but we were all on facebook, so it felt like we were in touch. There's also a sense of shock, and the realisation that it could easily have been our daughter. Or even our son - he walks home from work late at night.
Tomorrow really marks the end of our involvement, but her brothers and uncle will have the inquest and any future trial to go through. I suspect we'll see more of my brother-in-law who will want my husband's support, even if it's only as a pair of ears. But that's what big brothers are for, right?
Well, that's all for now. See you next week, DW!
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Date: 2018-05-18 01:01 am (UTC)