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I am 72 years old. Six months ago, my wife and I moved into a nursing home. Of our own free will. Voluntarily. Without saying a single word to our children. Now I am going to tell you why we did it. And how it all ended. My wife’s name is Margaret. We have been together for forty-eight years. We met at a dance in a parish hall outside Limerick — she was nineteen, I was twenty-one. A year later, we married. We had two children: our son Michael and our daughter Siobhán. We raised them. Helped them through their education. Then they moved to bigger cities. Michael now lives in Dublin, where he works as an engineer. Siobhán lives in Cork and is an accountant. They both have families, children and jobs. Once a week they would ring: “How are the two of you keeping?” — “Grand, love. Everything is fine.” We always answered: “We’re grand.” Even when nothing was fine any more. It started seven years ago. Margaret worked at an An Post distribution centre outside Limerick. Sorting, parcels, standing all day. One evening she came home and said, “Patrick, my back is hurting. I must have moved the wrong way.” I replied, “Lie down for a while. It will pass.” It did not pass. A month later, she was barely sleeping because of the pain. At night she would wake and cry quietly into her pillow. She thought I could not hear her. But I heard her. Every night. I took her to our GP. X-ray. MRI. Degenerative changes in the discs, two herniated discs and a trapped nerve. She was prescribed medicines and supplements that we had to pay for ourselves, nearly €145 a month. She took them for six months — not the slightest effect. Then came the injections. The treatment at a private clinic cost us about €500. Afterwards, it only got worse. Her back locked completely and she could not even turn over in bed. Then physiotherapy. Nearly €70 per session once all the extra treatments we had to pay for were included. We went for three months. Nearly €900 spent. Result: nothing. After that, we
