My mum
My mum was taken ill one night at around 10pm. Thankfully my sister lived just round the corner and was there within a couple of minutes.

My sister called for an ambulance, and then called me to let me know. I live about 50 miles away and mentioned coming through but my sister told me to hold off for the time being, and she would let me know when they got her to hospital.

She was taken in, but was awake and alert, and not really giving the staff much concern. As it was now well after midnight on a worknight, and feeling a bit happier about my mum's condition, I went to bed. I would phone the hospital first thing and take it from there.

Now I'm usually a heavy sleeper - rarely waking up before my alarm. However that night I woke up with a start, sitting bolt-upright. I checked my watch - it was 3:45am. I checked my phone - no texts or missed calls. I turned over and went back to sleep.

The phone rang 15 minutes later. It was my sister. My mum had taken a turn for the worst and we were to go in to the hospital. I threw my clothes on, jumped in the car, and hit the motorway. I got a call from my brother in law a few mins later to tell me that we were too late, and I wasn't to hurry - she was already gone.

It later transpired that the nurse had checked on her at 3:50am and had not found a pulse, and they had then been working on resuscitating her etc for approx a further 30 mins.

Now I don't usually believe in all that kind of thing, but that still creeps me out when I think about that night. As I say I'm a heavy sleeper but to have woken up at more or less the same time that my mum died is just a little bit chilling.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 11 Apr 2011, 11:01, 1 reply)

Things like this
just make you wonder that there is a whole bunch of stuff out there that we really don't know about.
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