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•Geriatrician daughter to geriatric parents🧔🏼♂️👵🏻👩🏻⚕️•Wife •Mum •Pal •Waiting for the other shoe to drop! Herself/Your one🌈🇮🇪💚 #BeKind 🤗
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My Mum 👵🏻 born 25th May 1935
86 years old today 🎈💖
I know I’m biased but isn’t she fabulous? 😍
#AgeProud
❤️
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👦🏻”Granny would you like to call over before my Debs?”
👵🏻”I wouldn’t miss it for the world” 😍❤️
Class of 2022💙
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My mum born on this day 25th May 1935 in Kilkenny
87 years of pure goodness❤️
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Double celebrations 👵🏻🧔🏼♂️❤️
Mum settling in home 👵🏻🏡
And today is Dad’s birthday 🎈💙
He’s now a nonagenarian! 😊
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Show me you’re in Ireland without telling me you’re in Ireland 🇮🇪 😂
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86 👵🏻”I’m not right!”
Those three words all Doctor daughters dread because we know it could be anything everything & nothing! 🤷🏻♀️👩⚕️🤔
My poor lovely mum is in hospital
Wish her luck 💞🍀
Getting old can be hard☹️
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👵🏻”We”ll take our chance with the virus Tess”🦠
Mum (85) with her younger sister Tess (83) who she hasn’t seen for 9 months. There was tears, shouting (they both refuse to wear their hearing aids🙄) laughter & more tears 😭💞🥰👭
#Emotional
#Covid19
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Thank you all for your lovely messages of support for Mum 👵🏻💕
Really appreciate it🙏
Unfortunately she’s physically pretty shook & in a lot of pain. That said she was delighted to see himself! 🧔🏼♂️❤️
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56years married today!👫❤️🧔🏼♂️👵🏻
And🧔🏼♂️had to be reminded again !😂
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Himself 🧔🏼♂️ got all suited & booted too. First prinks invite in his 89 years 🥂😂
Grandparents ❤️🧔🏼♂️👵🏻👦🏻
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Mum feeling brighter & stronger today 👵🏻💪❤️🩹
Thanks for all your lovely messages of support & love ❤️🐥…and hugs! 🤗
#Rehabilitation
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Born on this day 18th May 1932
My wonderful Uncle Jim celebrating his 90th birthday! 🕺🏾🎈❤️
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An emotional Home Visit for Mum today wonderfully facilitated by Occupational Therapist Leah & OT assistant & driver Paula 🏡💚🤍🚗
A thorough assessment of her home environment full of really useful & practical suggestions. Huge boost & confidence builder 💪👵🏻
#Rehabilitation
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👵🏻”I don’t want to be a burden to anyone”
My mum was emotional tonight when we left her 😭
Old age & frailty can be hard to witness in our loved ones ❤️
#Healing
❤️🩹
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Took 👵🏻 on her first outing since discharge 🏡 10days ago 🏥
Trying to build her confidence in IADLs. These are activities that allow independence in the community. We went to the post office, dry cleaners & lastly
@marksandspencer
for treats
#Rehabilitation
💪💕
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Thanks for all your good wishes prayers & love for Mum 🕯️❤️🙏👵🏻
Her broken hip was fixed today❤️🩹
She asked me to bring in her bag of rollers & a brush tomorrow so that’s a good sign🤞
Happy New Year to you all 😘
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My Dad is 89yo today! 🧔🏼♂️🎈
Happy Birthday to the most stubborn curious & funniest person I know!
Tipperary’s finest💙💛
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Here’s my Uncle Jim celebrating his 91st birthday today in Marbella with a celebratory cup of tea in a china cup!☕️😂👨🦳🎈
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Get up get dressed & get sitting out! 👵🏻
Day 4 post op for my poor Mum. Nurse Nancy 🧔🏼♂️ is putting her under pressure to eat & get moving but she’s not feeling it!
Once again thanks to every one of you for your love prayers & good wishes 🐥🙏❤️🕯️
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My 88yo 👵🏻 visit to
@bankofireland
today. She wanted a statement to see if a big cheque was cashed!
Irish Banks need to able to support their older customers better for these small requests. In my experience the Post Office do it really well.
#AgeFriendly
👵🏻🧔🏼♂️
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Called in home and there’s himself 🧔🏼♂️90yo getting the flower beds ready for planting! 🌼🌺 🌸
This weeks offer from
@lidl_ireland
!
#StayActive
#Spring
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My Mum feeling sad today 👵🏻😢
Her younger brother is very unwell in Hospital. Please keep him & his family in your thoughts & prayers
🙏🕯❤️
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Ageless friendship 💞
Emotional reunion for my mum👵🏻 87yo with her childhood friend Mother Agnes 92yo in beautiful Glemcairn Abbey Co Waterford💙🤍
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Took Mum out for a coffee with my brother☕️👵🏻😍👱🏼♂️
She’s been feeling very tired & her walking is slow. She brightened up & we had a lovely catch up.
#Frailty
#StayConnected
🤗💞
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Cause of death -Old Age
As a Geriatrician I think it’s brilliant to see this as cause of death.
Anyone else?
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Rest in peace Martin Molloy
13th October1939-12th May 2024
My beloved Uncle died this morning at his home in Blackrock. He had been physically unwell for a number of years. I was honoured with his trust to manage him through his final few weeks & days ❤️
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Today my wonderful mum is 89 👵🏻💕🎈
She shares her birthday with Padre Pio whom she has great devotion to.
Her lovely brother Jim called in for tea & birthday cake ❤️🎂
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Thank you all for your lovely messages of support. I wasn’t sure if I should share but I’m glad I did. Here’s mum & Sr Agnes together in Glencairn in 2019
#Friendship
💕
Rest in peace Sr Agnes ☮️
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“Stan’s Salt …Stan likes a lot of salt on his food. He has had it all his life & is now 86 so it can’t do much harm”
Met an 86yo 👴🏻today who’s recovering from surgery in Hospital today. His family left this personalised salt cellar in for him!😂
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My incredible neighbour Betty Ryan 92 yrs old & doesn’t have a pain or an ache!👵🏻
👩🏻”Whats your secret Betty?”
👵🏻”Be Grateful”🙏🤗
#AgeProud
💞
#InThisTogether
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It’s not the same without Michael O Regan telling us what’s what and who’s who for this referendum!
Let’s all say a special prayer for him today 🙏🕯️
#Referendum2024
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My mum 86 yrs 👵🏻 reunited with her Kilkenny childhood friend Sr Agnes 91 yrs in St Mary’s Abbey Glencairn
#Friendship
💞👭
#Christmas
🎁
Emosh!😭
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It only takes one person to believe in you…that person has always been my Mother ❤️
Grateful🙏
#MothersDay
🌹
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My heartbroken mum 💔👵🏻
She just heard the sad news that her beloved childhood friend & source of strength & prayers Mother Agnes died last night
A beautiful woman. May she rest in peace ☮️ ❤️
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Friends The Reunion!
My 86yo Mum👵🏻 with her childhood friend Sr Agnes 91yo in St Mary’s Cistercian monastery Glencairn this afternoon💖😍
#ComingOutOfLockdown
#Friendship
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Mum this evening 👵🏻💕
She’s getting great care but still very much not back to herself yet❤️🩹
It’s a bit perplexing🤔
#Rehabilitation
#SendHugs
🤗 Thanks 🙏❤️
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I dare you not be moved by this!
Dr Conor Murphy & Dr Ciara Gibbons lead out on farewell singsong for our patient Olive discharged from
@RoyalDonnybrook
Rehabilitation service today. Backing vocals
@edelphysio
@eoinsynnott
et al 🥰😍🎸🎼
#Teamwork
😂💪
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Wiped! Unfortunately tested positive
#Covid19
🦠☹️🤧
I thought I was doing everything right & taking all precautions. Now 10 days in the cooler with 👦🏻👦🏻👦🏻👨🏻🦱🤦🏻♀️That will be the real test!
Strength to all my incredible colleagues in
@RoyalDonnybrook
💪
#HoldFirm
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I asked my mum to say prayers for a pal who’s separated & looking for a man
👵🏻”Why on earth would she want another one?!” 😂💞
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👵🏻”He has a lovely face”😍😇
Mums Child of Prague broke in May
A Twitter pal & her Presbyterian fiancé headed in to Veritas & bought her this replacement
#Kindness
#TwitterMagic
🐥❤️🤗
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91 today! 🧔🏼♂️💙🎈
Still the most stubborn curious & extraordinary person I know!! ❤️
Up Tipp!💙💛
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Called in home this afternoon 🏡🧔🏼♂️👵🏻 I was starving!
A delicious two egg omelette with cheese was served up to me 😋💞👵🏻
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👵🏻”He’s been at it all day!”
Busy day planting for 🧔🏼♂️ today. Great progress made 🌺🌾
Thanks for all your encouragement!🙏
#StayActive
#Nature
#Spring
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Mum transferred over for Rehabilitation today 👵🏻🙌
Special thanks to
@ImeldaNoone
who recognised her from 🐥 & took her for a walk & trip to bathroom while she was waiting to be discharged from
@svuh
🙏💕
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Mum made progress this week. Her strength is good & she’s working on improving her balance. Trial of crutches went well 🩼🙌
Here she is with Physiotherapist Catherine who is working her magic. She is patient kind & very encouraging to 👵🏻 😇🙏💕
#Rehabilitation
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Reunited at last!👵🏻🧔🏼♂️😍
Discharged home in time for the Rosary - Glorious Mystery btw! 📿😇😂
Incredibly grateful to
@ohanloncmr
for his care and expertise 🙏❤️
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A very special birthday present 🫶💞
Joan one of our
@RoyalDonnybrook
residents painted this beautiful picture of Vico for me 🖼️
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🧔🏼♂️88yo”Will we say the Joyful mystery for Elizabeth?”
Called into see how Dad is getting on and ended up saying the rosary for Mum😍📿😇❤️
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Slice of birthday cake & a cuppa 🧔🏼♂️👵🏻☕️🎂 before they head off to the ‘pictures’ 🎥
They’re going to see
#Belfast
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Wishing Joan & John a wonderful celebration tomorrow and a life of love happiness & laughter together 👩❤️👨❤️
A full rosary was said for you both & this fella was put outside tonight 📿😇
@joancooke5
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My mum on her way to the funeral mass of Mother Agnes in Glencairn 🕯️💕
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“I remembered her head bent towards my head
Her breath in mine our fluent dipping knives
Never closer the whole rest of our lives”-Seamus Heaney💚
I thought of this beautiful poem when my 84yo mum looked out at me through her kitchen window this morning❤️💞
#cocooning
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Mum catching up on her correspondence this evening 👵🏻💝
She was very bemused when I showed her
@joancooke5
Daffodil tweet! 🌼🐥😂🙏
She’s getting stronger day by day
#Rehabilitation
💪
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My 🧔🏼♂️👵🏻 are back! …by popular demand 😍
At the beach in sunny Wexico!💜💛🏖
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21 years married today
Thanks for putting up with me hon
@puttscurley
🙏👫❤️
It’s not easy being married to a Cogan!
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🧔🏼♂️ thought we might say a quick sorrowful mystery tonight! 😇📿
👵🏻 settling in & making progress. Thank you for all your lovely wishes 🙏💕💕
#Rehabilitation
💪
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Don’t know if you need to hear this but he’s heading back to the marital bed this evening!👵🏻🧔🏼♂️🛌 🙌😂
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“On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first & knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue
I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day”
-Patrick Kavanagh 💚
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My 👵🏻🧔🏼♂️ update
Quite a ceremony working out the antigen test. 89yo🧔🏼♂️ took over an hour to read instructions & gave them both nosebleeds🤦🏻♀️
Poor👵🏻 positive & is feeling weak & fluey🤒🥲 Prayers please🙏 🕯💞
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I was that worried LC mum last year. Thankfully my 👦🏻 came home in one piece from Greece
I can’t stop thinking about those beautiful boys Andrew & Max
The heartbreak for their families & their friends. But especially their mothers
💔💔
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Out on manoeuvres 💞👵🏻👩🏻☀️
Mum reminded me that today is the feast of St Anthony the patron saint of lost things …one of her favourites. He’s never been known to fail ! 😇😍
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Operation Day for Dad 🧔🏼♂️
Thoughts & prayers please 🙏
He’s having a cataract done in the only eye he can see with 👁️🤞
Mum came with me to settle him into the Day Care Ward She has a bit of washing & cleaning to do when he’s out of the house this afternoon 🏡 😂🧽 🧼🧹
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Happy Birthday to my one and only husband!
@puttscurley
❤️🎈
A tough year for him since his last birthday but thankfully he still has his sense of humour 😂🙏
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My 86yo 👵🏻 with her beloved brother Jim 89yo 👨🏻🦳 ❤️
Every
#Christmas
they meet in town & have afternoon tea in the Westbury. This year they met up at home 🎅🤶
#StaySafe
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87yo 👵🏻 heading off to afternoon bridge 🚙❤️
She’s playing with her pal Miriam who’s a “marvellous bridge player & lovely to play with” ..what more can you ask for?! 💗👵🏻😍
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👵🏻”I’m exhausted looking at him!”
My 89yo 🧔🏼♂️ spent the day fixing windows cutting back bushes & mowing the lawn! Mum insisted he have a shower & change of clothes before getting into her crispy clean sheets!🚿🧼
#StayActive
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7.15am 30th August 2023
#BlackrockPark
Beautiful autumn morning here in Dublin ☀️🍂😊
I don’t know the full story but I feel very sad about Vera Pauw news
#BeKind
🤗
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Orthopaedic Clinic today for mum 👵🏻X-ray check & Consultant review. All well 💪 🦴
Reminder to all healthcare professionals how much clinic reviews can mean to patients 🙏🧑🏻⚕️👩🏻⚕️
#Rehabilitation
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31st December 2022
Greeting from the Acute Orthopaedic Unit 🙋🏻♀️
Thoughts & prayers for anyone in hospital.
#Askingformymum
💕👵🏻🤕
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Coffee with Mum this morning 👵🏻💕☕️
She spent 4 hours in ED on Saturday but didn’t tell me as I was away! Wouldn’t mind but I was onto her every day!📞 🙄
Is this exclusively an Irish mammy thing?☘️💚
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🧔🏼♂️ walking back from shops!
I told him not to go out as paths are icy & treacherous & he might fall but no talking to him.
Please keep an eye out on your older neighbours & offer help ..even if they refuse 👁️ ❄️🧊🤗
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Mum has to wear a skirt with her boot so Dad thought he’d wear a tie! 🧔🏼♂️👵🏻❤️
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My 👵🏻 is back behind the wheel 🚙🙌
Mum lost her driving mojo after her hip fracture. I have been gently trying to persuade her back on the road to no avail.
Then helpfully a very direct friend told her “if you can walk you should be able to drive!” 😂👭
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Cheers pals!
Celebrating last day of
#LeavingCert24
in our house 🏠👦🏻
No more what time would you like your dinner at love & anything I can get you in the shops? 😂
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My 86👵🏻 heading into
@stjamesdublin
#Osteoporosis
clinic where she was treated like a 👸🏻🙏💕
Reminder to all of us working in healthcare. Hospital appointments are stressful events for our patients. Getting there, parking & finding your way to the right place.
#BeKind
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No photo tonight but here’s an oldie 👵🏻😍
I spoke to Mum this evening and she told me about all the lovely people who helped her today! Too many to mention but thank you 🙏 💕
@svuh
@OlderPersonsSV1
@MicheleTait1
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You can take the man out of the bog but …💚😂
My 88yo🧔🏼♂️peeling the spuds with his bare hands 🤦🏻♀️
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RIP Prof Davis Coakley
Geriatric medicine has lost a beautiful & brilliant man ❤️
(In 2019 he graciously gave me a signed copy of his history of
@stjamesdublin
📕)
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Thanks to “the lovely young boy”(comfortably in his 30s) in the Vodafone shop Blackrock who fixed mum’s Dora phone …again! 🙏👵🏻
#StayConnected
#StayActive
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