DYING WISH Mystery of OAP HAS L AST KISS WITH WIFE OF 66YRS heart scan Army bias
A TERMINALLY-ILL man’s s dying wish was granted when he was reunited with his wife e of 66 years... for one last kiss.
David and Sylvia Mason had not t seen each other for six months after r being moved to different care homes.
He has terminal cancer and she e suffers from dementia.
David, 90, told staff at Charlotte e House care home on the Wirral, , Merseyside, how much he missed his s 87-year-old wife, and how he would d love to cuddle her one last time.
Carers rang the couple’s family and the other care home and the result was a magical moment when the two o embraced after half a year apart.
Care home manager Charlene Beck said: “We were all blubbing.”
Sylvia’s favourite song, You are My World by Tom Jones, played as she saw her husband for the last time.
The couple, who married on May 30, 1953, were then taken to a cinema room where they held hands and watched Casablanca, just as they had done at the pictures when they were young.
Natalie Fitch, activities co-ordinator at the home, said: “He was so happy when she was wheeled in.
“He went ‘surprise!’ and gave her a kiss. They were telling each other how much they love and miss each other and he passed her love balloons.
“We put Casablanca on for them. They kept talking to each other and kissing during the film.
“David is such a lovely man. He kept telling me how much he adores her and that she’s been his wife for 66 years. He just wanted to spend time with her and have one last kiss.”
The couple first met in 1949 on the way home from a party when David was 20 and just out of the army and she was just 17. They later had two children together. SOLDIERS are getting better screening to detect hearts defects than sailors and air personnel.
But the MOD will not reveal why the Army receives superior treatment.
Now former Defence minister Kevan Jones is insisting the RAF and Navy must be given the same standard of medical care.
He said: “It’s disappointing the MOD has failed to provide a response to such an important enquiry.”
The Armed Forces routinely screen recruits for heart disease – but Defence minister Tobias Ellwood revealed that soldiers alone get electrocardiograms.
He claimed: “This is in line with American College of Cardiology guidelines. There are no plans to change the criteria for detecting abnormalities.”
Heart specialists say ECGS are used for professional sportsmen and women because they are the best way to screen for issues.
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Newton, Powys.