Nuch's Dad

Nuch's Dad died this morning in Chiang Sehn Hospital where he was admitted yesterday suffering from tuberculosis. He had lost a lot of weight over the last few years and was only 63. Nuch received the news on the phone here in Leechpool and to see her usually smiley happy face crumple with grief was truly heart rending. It's obviously come as quite a shock and she is devastated.She's booked flights here and she'll fly out tonight with her daughter Natasha. She's beating herself up for not phoning him more regularly and not realising just how ill he had become. It's just awful to live so far away from your family and she is distraught that she will never see her lovely Dad ever again. These dark days that you know must inevitably come and you try not to think about them. As she drove out of my gate she lowered her passenger window and said to me "Friday the 13th".