REUNITED ONLY TO SAY GOODBYE
Clutching my wife’s hand as I sat beside her hospital bed, I searched her face for a flicker of movement. Though she was unconscious, I believed Karen knew that I was there, and I clung to that comfort. I hadn’t been able to see her during the seven weeks she’d spent in hospital. But rather than the loving reunion with Karen that I’d prayed for, instead I was by her side as doctors prepared to switch off her life support.
Karen and I had been together since meeting through a dating website in September 2010. She had three children from her previous relationship, then aged nine, six and three. In July 2011, we welcomed a
