Camogie legend Anna Geary shares her experience of losing her father just weeks after his terminal diagnosis. She discusses the shock and disbelief of his rapid decline, the impact on her family dynamic, and the lessons she learned from grief.
RTE star Anna Geary has opened up on the death of her father just weeks after finding out that he was terminally ill. The Camogie legend's whole life turned upside down when he died just six weeks after doctors found a tumour in his back, reports RSVP Live. Anna said: “My dad was in his early 60s, he was so healthy; we used to joke - he was a farmer - if he spent the night outside in the pouring rain he wouldn’t even have a sniffle the next day.
If there was meat in the fridge a week old only for the dogs, if my dad ate it, he would be grand – he’d a stomach of steel. So, he had this invincibility in my eyes. So, to find out so suddenly and out of the blue that he was ill...' Speaking to Carl Mullan on his Phone Truths podcast, she continued: “He had a bit of back pain, and he went in and they found a tumour and it had spread, and within six weeks he was gone. To find out like that it was hard to believe. I think I took the phone call and went about my day.” Anna is the eldest in her family and her dad's death changed the dynamic at home. She said: “Our whole life turned upside down and when you lose anybody in your family, particularly a parent the dynamic of your family shifts. And I was the oldest. Suddenly you’re not a child. “I had to step up and all the rigmarole that comes with consultants and appointments. 'I think if there is people listening going through that, it is allowing yourself the space to process that, because I didn’t process it immediately and didn’t process it until he was gone.” Anna learned a lot from her grief in recent years. The Ireland's Fittest Family coach said: “It was a bolt of reality for me that things can change in an instan
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