Retired Fermanagh civil servant Tom Best last saw his wife of 51 years alive when she was being placed in an ambulance and driven away from the couple’s Derrylin, Co Fermanagh, home last Wednesday afternoon. Within 24 hours, her condition worsened and she died in Enniskillen’s South West Acute Hospital without seeing her husband again. He has been told to self-isolate at home for 14 days, unable to say farewell to his soulmate. Clutching a photograph of his wife, Tom paced up and down his garden, a short distance from where his wife was being laid to rest. Later, he received the heartbreaking call from a hospital doctor telling him of his wife’s death.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2020 14:53 UTC