Oh my god. Trinity - I don't know you but I do know THIS (& I'm sorry this is long but am weeping for you and I am crap at doing 'short' at best of times)
I PROMISE YOU THOSE IMAGES WILL FADE Please please PLEASE know that even if it doesn't feel like it. I lost someone beloved 12 weeks ago tomorrow and the night before they died was horrific beyond horrific - stuff you never want to see or hear and etched into your brain, feeling like that will be all you'd ever remember and just wishing was some magic mind tippex to wipe them out.
12 weeks on and THEY HAVE ALREADY FADED angel. Lying if said totally, but they are NOT now the first ones I think of or wake up with right in front of my eyes again. I can now remember other, happier, things too. If I can give you ANYTHING, it is that certainty that yours will too. I know it's scant comfort right now, but it is true.
I am just so so sorry for your loss, especially since it is obvious from above you have already - unbelievably
- faced this once. But please believe the beautifully vivid picture of your man that you described below WILL be the one that overcomes the shock and trauma of last night's images. Just (((hugs))) to you and DDs, and know that this man you write of so beautifully cleary loved you very, very, much and that gift of being loved that way and those memories will never be taken from you. Sx
he was a big strong man
he had a red hat he wore all the time
he used to call his crocs 'melly mels' cause we once saw a picture of mel gibson in crocs and he was trying to convince me that crocs were cool cause mel gibson wore them and I fancied mel gibson when he was younger
he loved curry, he used to spend hours in the kitchen making curries from scratch
really hot and tasty
I used to taste them, they were really tasty but waaay too hot for me
he used to love to sweat whilst eating a curry
he loved fishing, the sea, nature
we used to go and collect the flatfish from the salmon nets in the sea outside my house
he was so loving and kind but in private
he was a big strong mans man but with a soft squishy heart
I used to call him my teddy bear in a crocodile suit
SO MANY
and all love x