AT 1.15am, he switched on the beside light and I woke with a start. It was only much later that I realised he would pass away within the next few minutes; all our efforts to resuscitate him were to no avail.
During that traumatic experience, I was in a wild panic with barely a coherent thought in me. When I rang 999, the initial questions were straightforward and, in hindsight, the ambulance must have reached our home in record time.
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