Christmas wishes

"You've tried your best to fight this Fred, but it's been 2 weeks since your fall, you're bed bound and Daisy can't keep looking after you"

I was fighting a losing battle. "If I go in I'll never come out again"

I guessed he was probably right, he'd fallen at home and banged his nose, there wasn't much evidence on the outside but I suspected that he'd had an internal bleed, a small one since the fall.

Fred was a stubborn chap, he wouldn't let Daisy ring 999 or his GP and took to his bed to rest. "Thing is Fred" I tried to reason with him "it's been a fortnight now, you're getting worse by the day, let me arrange for you to go in, they'll patch you up and send you home when you're back on your feet"

Daisy was having her two penneth as well, I looked at them both, still in love and probably as scared as each other. I said to Fred that if he got a wriggle on he'd be home in time to send me a card for Christmas. Eventually he agreed and promised to send that card.

A couple of weeks later I got to work to find a card which had come through the post. Suddenly Fred popped back into my mind.

"I wanted to write to you because you made such a difference to Fred. He promised to send you a card but I'm sorry to say that he passed away before he could fulfil that promise, so I'm doing it for him. Merry Christmas and a happy new year,
Love
Daisy"