Page 932 - Week 04 - Thursday, 7 May 2020
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Many of us were with Dr Foskey on her Facebook page last Thursday night, less than a week ago, when she said there would be no more treatment for her. However, I thought, and I am sure most of us thought, that there would still be a lot more time for her. She wrote in her last post about how she would be writing her memoirs. She did say she was moving into palliative care, but that was not to be. On Friday morning of last week, her daughter Eleni wrote on Facebook:
This morning our wonderful powerhouse mother Deb Foskey abruptly left her body and us behind for another place. Samara McIlroy and I are left reeling but are comforted to know she had a nurse with her, and she was conscious, aware and very ready.
After being helped back into bed she calmly told the nurse “I’m just about ready now” before taking her final breath. For those of you in shock, we are too. You didn’t miss a message, it wasn’t foretold this might happen now.
Dr Foskey is survived by her two daughters, Samara and Eleni. Her Facebook page now simply says, “12.11.1949-1.5.2020 A huge life, simply lived.” I will finish with a poem that she wrote in 2002 that was quoted by Eleni in the announcement of her death. It is also the only one of hers that I can find online. I do not have her book with me at this stage. She wrote:
A message to the Very Deep
Dear Mother,
As you lay dying,
I held your hand,
Resisting the impulse to say
The words that roared in my heart
So I whisper them now
Where brothers and nurses can’t hear
When you see my son,
Say hello from me.
Question resolved in the affirmative, members standing in their places.
Petitions
The following petitions were lodged for presentation:
Legislative Assembly—sitting pattern—petition 4-20
By Ms Le Couteur, from 32 residents:
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