Guest column: Emotional pain of losing parent ... - Windsor Star June 12, 2021
Emotional pain of losing parent hits different during age of COVID-19 Author of the article: By stephen weir Publishing date: Jun 12, 2021 • June 12, 2021 My 96-year old father died recently. I was busy looking under the bushes for our garbage bin — the men on the truck continue to find unique places to deposit the empties — when my iphone vibrated. I didn’t take the call as bin retrieval is a serious business. The call rolled over to text. The message was short and to the point. “Dad has gone! It happened 10 minutes ago.” He had been recovering in a Manotick senior’s facility near Ottawa following surgery a week before. Dad, a Second World War vet and former Windsor optometrist, had been rushed to hospital when he couldn’t get out of bed that morning. The hospital admitted him and less than an hour later he was gone. The phone vibrated again. It was my wife. She had heard and wa