Marian Hastings

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Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland · Family Flowers Only with Marian Hastings · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

And I didn't really want Joey to anyway.

He was only six.

So by this time, they're 15, 11 and six.

What kind of thing do you think we should say?

And if they ask this, what do you think?

And the best advice I think was sometimes you can't answer their question there and then, but you can get an answer for it.

They can have the answer from you or they can go and talk to a doctor.

Every doctor was willing to meet them and the nurses and everybody chatting away with them.

So it became really normal to our kids to be in there and for people to be dipping in and out.

And I think that was one of the hardest elements of it.

Yeah.

To admit that to them and to sort of try and reassure them that it would be OK, but it wouldn't be OK.

It's not going to be okay.

He won't be here.

And they said, well, what will happen to us?

And I would have to say, well, we're going to live in our house still and you'd be going to school and, you know, we'll be really sad because Daddy won't be there.

But I'll be with you and we'll have to just mind each other.

It was just such a hard time.

Yeah.

Your instinct is to protect them and like that, make sure everything is fine.

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