MINI: Christian’s Touching Tribute To His Mother-In-Law Jackie And The Emergency Services
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Christian:
“This is how I’ll remember Jackie, my wife’s mum who died suddenly on Saturday. My mother-in-law who was way more than that to me. She welcomed me into the family when I was in debt, in a sales job I was sleepwalking through and mumbling about a dream of getting into radio
We are devastated and shocked and also grateful for a true small miracle that Sarah and I were there for her last few minutes. We held her and Sarah got to say how much her mum meant to her.
In a truly heartbreaking day, I also saw such incredible kindness and support from the first responders, Rob and Cass and the team who were humane and so caring in a devastating moment. Also the Police, Senior Constable Matthew at Victoria Police who gave us real care
The last three years she moved here to Australia and in her mid 70s built a strong community and life for herself. That’s who Jackie Sherrington was. Someone who makes something out of life.
Go in peace Jackie, we love you.”
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. I'm just going to say something, |
| 0:07.9 | but before I say that, I just want to flag up what we're going to talk about because I'm obviously aware that, |
| 0:13.6 | you know, anytime when you're on the radio, you could start talking about something and someone |
| 0:17.4 | might be going through something in their own life and you didn't know what it was |
| 0:21.4 | about so if anyone is going through grief at the moment and you can probably guess what I'm going to |
| 0:26.4 | be talking about it is going to be a death that happened to my mother and all over the weekend if you're |
| 0:31.4 | going through this right now just don't listen to the next couple of minutes the last thing I want to do |
| 0:35.6 | is upset anybody the rest of you I don't want to be a down this morning or ruin what you normally get from |
| 0:41.3 | the show. But one thing I hope we always do every day on this show is we talk about our lives |
| 0:47.2 | and hopefully that we're there to talk about anything that goes on in our lives. That's what I |
| 0:51.4 | love doing about this show. It's everything to do with our lives. |
| 0:54.6 | The funny stories, the hardships, and hopefully helping each other through the ups and downs that |
| 1:00.6 | you'll find in life. And over the weekend, sadly, my mother nor Jackie, she lost her life. |
| 1:11.6 | And it was sudden, and in amongst all the awfulness of what that's like, we were all there. |
| 1:18.6 | That's my wife, me and our two daughters as well. |
| 1:22.6 | And Jackie didn't die alone. She was surrounded, even though it was sudden, and we had no warning, but if you know my |
| 1:28.5 | mother-in-law, when she wants to go, she just goes. You know, you look around sometimes, that |
| 1:33.1 | jacket's on, and she's like, take me home. Farmer wants a wife. It's on in 10 minutes. I'm done. |
| 1:37.6 | Hang around here. She had made her mind up, and despite my poor wife doing actual CPR, that's how sudden it was to her mum. |
| 1:46.4 | I mean, my wife is always my hero, but I'm telling you guys, you know, we were waiting for the paramedics and it must have been 10 minutes of. |
| 1:54.8 | And suddenly your inner world, I feel like my wife and I this week have joined this club that no one really wants |
| 2:02.4 | to be in. Suddenly this whole other part of life just opens up. And suddenly there's a kind |
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