It has not been a good year for grandfathers - or more specifically my mother's fathers both biological and step as her step father died at the weekend. As no family relationships seem to straight forward I am once again left unsure as to how I feel. I don't mean to sound heartless and it is obviously sad but personally only a little upsetting. Again this is more because I had seen very little of him in the last 10 to 15 years so it does not seem such a big loss in that respect but he was a big part of my life when I was younger and I get my middle name from him.
Understandably he took his wife's side in our disagreements with my grandmother although ultimately he became one of her victims as he had legal wrangles to stay in his own house after she died. The sour times can't wipe away what went on before and the little I know of car maintenance comes from him helping to patch up my first few bangers and I remember being ever so proud when he was awarded a bravery medal for rescuing a neighbour from a fire.
Apparently there is to be an inquest into his death after he choked and three separate medical teams failed to remove the blockage. Curiously it was not his condition that killed him, although apparently choking can be quite common in Alzheimer sufferers, like his wife who was on the way to hospital for further tests to ascertain her condition when she was killed in a car crash. (Brian has been driving but had got out to ask for directions).
RIP Brian Kelly
Understandably he took his wife's side in our disagreements with my grandmother although ultimately he became one of her victims as he had legal wrangles to stay in his own house after she died. The sour times can't wipe away what went on before and the little I know of car maintenance comes from him helping to patch up my first few bangers and I remember being ever so proud when he was awarded a bravery medal for rescuing a neighbour from a fire.
Apparently there is to be an inquest into his death after he choked and three separate medical teams failed to remove the blockage. Curiously it was not his condition that killed him, although apparently choking can be quite common in Alzheimer sufferers, like his wife who was on the way to hospital for further tests to ascertain her condition when she was killed in a car crash. (Brian has been driving but had got out to ask for directions).
RIP Brian Kelly
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