User talk:Paul57

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Message for Paul from Daryl [11 August 2017]

Hi Paul

Sorry it has taken almost a year to the day to respond to your message.

I set up a We Relate page, as far as a I recall, just to pass on the family history files to my son when his daughter was born. I haven’t looked at it since then, till today.

It was just a random chance, browsing the internet to find out half forgotten facts when I stumbled across your message. I hope you find this.

As for my dad, yes he died of a heart attack very suddenly and unexpectedly. I’m 55 and my brother, Dale, 54 and we we both wonder sometimes if we’ll go the same way.

However, my dad (and our uncle John) were both diabetic. My dad ignored all the warning signs despite knowing about John’s condition. He believed he had cancer and wouldn’t go to the doctor until John practically forced him. He was soon on insulin tablets and was fine after that - though no doubt he had already damaged his heart by remaining untreated for diabetes for so long. He also smoked from the age of 13 to almost when he died. He had actually quit, but his cousin Victor brought him some cigars back from a trip abroad, not realising my dad had quit. He didn’t touch them for a while, but one day while tending grandad’s horses (which he did every day of the last 7 years of his life) he decided to try one. Next thing he knew he was lying on the ground wondering how he got there.

John, who never went to the stables, suddenly had the urge to visit my dad there and fortunately found him, unconscious, and called an ambulance. My dad went to hospital and later that night had a second heart attack which he also survived. A few days later he was sitting up in bed, laughing and joking about it all and how he thought Victor had given him poison cigars. Two days later, on the morning he was supposed to go home, my mother got a call to say that he had had a third attack and this time he didn’t make it. John died last year at 80+, and grandad died aged 84 I think, of bowel cancer so they were pretty long lived and had no heart issues. Nana Morgan (nee Athersmith) did die of a heart attack, aged 67, but she was a manic smoker all her life and a hyper, angry, bitter person for most of her days.

I hope you are okay and that you have survived 56! It was a lovely surprise to hear from you. I really hope you get this reply. We have met a few times in the distant past. Once, I think, in Barrow in a bar but it wasn’t a particularly memorable occasion.

I’m on holiday in British Columbia, Canada, as I write this, visiting my partner. Later this month I’ll be back in Hanoi, Vietnam, working as a secondary school teacher. My email address is darylmorgan08@gmail.com if you want to reply. My brother Dale and sister Derienne are both living in Ulverston and sister Shelley is in Gosport, Hampshire. They will be fascinated to know you were in touch - we were all brought up with legend of your family and its tragedy.

Best wishes

Daryl--DarylMorgan 21:25, 11 August 2017 (UTC)