Yesterday afternoon while we awaited news from the north east there was the small matter of Amanda taking her driving test again, and while I sat in the office ready to ring the insurance company and be frightened silly by the quote to add her onto Suzannes car policy, Amanda was driving the streets of Horsforth in an attempt to convince the examiner that she should be let loose on the unsuspecting road using public of Leeds.
She failed.
She failed for the strangest of reasons - undue hesitation.
In the six months that she has been taking lessons I have also been taking her out in Suzannes car and whenever we have stood at road junctions I have always told her to wait until she is absolutely sure that it is safe to proceed. Most road accidents, probably all road accidents that are not on motorways, occur at junctions and so it seems to be no problem to me for anyone to wait for a few more seconds, or even minutes, until they themselves are totally confident of completing the manouvre without causing problems for other road users.
Apparently this attitude is wrong, according to the examiners you should proceed across junctions with all due haste and without hesitation - it explains a lot of what I see on the roads.
From the hospital yesterday came news that Suzannes mother had "perked up a bit" when her two sons travelled up from London to be with her in her final moments, she's a fighter and while the hospital staff say that there is no chance of a recovery she doesn't seem to be listening to them, as always there is nothing else for them to do but sit by the bedside and wait.
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Watching one pass is a hard thing at any time. It was good of the sons to come up.
Peace
Its getting to a point where we don't really know whats happening now, the hospital are keeping her alive on a ventillator with 100% oxygen at times, when they reduce it she is ok for 24 hours then relapses again, sooner or later one of these relapses will be the last one but there is no alternative for the health professionals who cannot let her die and yet on the other hand know that there is no future in the current situation, its hard for the family to cope with the extreme ups and downs at the moment but they are a large family and are leaning on each other a lot.
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