Sleeps till ski time

Sorry to hear your news Snapzzz I was in exactly the same situation with my own father in January.

I hope your situation improve and you manage to get away

Sorry to hear that Snapzzz, but the snows will come again. There are always last-minute deals for when he's on the mend again. All the best.

Hi Dave,

Good news re the Hochberg snow cannons etc. I didn't realise you could ski to Oberau from Niederau, i take it it's off piste. It certainly isn't listed on the following.
http://skimap.skijuwel.com/

Admin wrote:Sorry to hear that Snapzzz, but the snows will come again. There are always last-minute deals for when he's on the mend again. All the best.

Thanks for the kind words guys but sadly he will not mend. It is simply a matter of time, could be days, could be weeks, could be a few months, we simply do not know for sure. For me i hope his time comes peacefully and comfortably.

That's very sad news Snapzzz :(
I hope when his time comes he slips away easily and peacefully.

My Dad was nearly dying for about 10 years - regularly on the brink of death - and eventually we sort of got used to it. So I used to go on my ski holidays wondering if he'd still be alive when I got back. But it didn't stop me going.

I was very worried he would die during, or just before the group holiday to Tignes in January because he was critically ill in hospital. And then I worried that he'd die when I was ski-ing at the beginning of March. But he managed to live through both these holidays, and I visited him in hospital on my way through London each time, there and back.
He still knew who I was and tried to listen when I was telling him about the ski-ing, and I plonked my ski boots on his hospital bed so that he could get more of the idea of it all. After my ski holiday in March, when he was very weak, he managed to eat a small nibble of the chocolate I bought him in Paris when I was waiting for the Eurostar.
He eventually died 2 weeks after I got back from my March ski holiday.

I don't know which way would be the best for your family, but for me and mine it seemed best to continue with our normal lives as far as we could, whilst trying to make time to visit him whenever we could.

No-one could love their Dad more than I did, but yet when he was unconscious and dying I didn't want to go to London to see him. I felt that all the important things between us had already been done and said, and there would be no benefit to anyone if I went.

And it took 2 weeks for my family and I to organize his funeral, so even if I had been abroad ski-ing when he died I could still have stayed until the end of the holiday and done my bit to help with organizing things - such are the
marvels of modern communication.

You and your family have all my sympathy at this difficult time.

Sorry about this mate, must be really difficult for all of you. We all look forward to skiing so much throughout the year and it must be very disappointing and sad should you have to cancel it - but I know that you would never want to go with the condition he has. I totally understand, if I have to cancel my ski holiday I will be sad, but also know that it is the only thing I can do.

Thoughts are with all of your family. You know that there will always be a place on my chair lift should you want to do anything later in the season.

Icy

Iceman wrote:Sorry about this mate, must be really difficult for all of you. We all look forward to skiing so much throughout the year and it must be very disappointing and sad should you have to cancel it - but I know that you would never want to go with the condition he has. I totally understand, if I have to cancel my ski holiday I will be sad, but also know that it is the only thing I can do.

Thoughts are with all of your family. You know that there will always be a place on my chair lift should you want to do anything later in the season.

Icy

Thanks Buddy. i'll be there.

63 sleeps till Cortina:)