𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲🤍

On Monday 2nd September 2024, our beloved dad / grandad / great grandad, Eddie Welsh an ex miner of Silverdale Colliery, after a collapse at his home in Clayton, sadly died a few hours later at Royal Stoke Hospital.

He was the most selfless, kindest, funniest, straight talking, hard working and much adored husband, dad, grandad and great grandad and he was never happier than when with his family🫶🏽 He and our dear mum / nan Christine,had been together for 58 years and barely parted during their many happy years.

Unfortunately he had a few health conditions so ended up with various hospital admission’s over the years. He didn’t cope with being an inpatient especially being parted from his soul mate and it was as traumatic for us as it was for him to see him so distressed wanting to come home but also being at times too poorly to allow this.

He had a real phobia of hospitals, doctors and especially admissions.

In December 2015 he was admitted with pneumonia and pleural effusion and he was so ill we didn’t think he would make it, but the staff were just exceptional. The treatment he received and kindness and compassion they showered him with is truly unforgettable and we could never repay them.

One ward in particular, the respiratory ward is the one we cannot thank enough. A nurse called Tess and a Dr called Ali especially🤍

The yellow fluid that was drained off of his lungs still stays with us today. So thick in consistency and a daunting yellow colour.

This traumatic time is still so vivid to this day.. the weather, it was bitter cold, snowing, the run up to Christmas and we as a family just felt dread, scared and completely helpless.

This is where Tess and Ali came in, they could not do enough for him or us.

There was at this time a new service called ‘The Nurses At Home’ where even the poorliest patients could be at home as trained nurses would visit 3/4 times a day to administer IV antibiotics. This enabled him to be home with us for Christmas🥰

Sadly this service no longer exists but we are forever grateful to them and forever in their debt for this along with Tess and Ali.

On organising the funeral we decided that due to Tess and Ali and the rest of their department giving us the greatest gift, 9 more years of memories, which allowed him to be here to see and love his three

great-grandchildren, we wanted to give something back.

After contacting the hospital they told us that since Covid the ward is no longer situated where it was and although at current, there is no longer a home for the pleural services, they have just been given the good news that they have been allocated a space to treat patients.

Instead of flowers we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask for you to kindly donate to this fantastic department🫶🏽.

Everybody knows somebody with lung conditions especially when we are in an ex mining community - one of the many jobs he did. So it only seems fitting that any donations received should go to a place where current and future generations can also have the magnificent care that he received🤍🤍🤍

Thank you in advance✨🙏🏽