'Bye people - hello animals!Byline: By Jenny Waddington DISTRICT nurse Tereasa McDermott has said an emotional farewell Farewell Auld Lang Syne closing song of New Year’s Eve. [Music: Leach, 91] extreme unction (last rites) anointing at the hour of death, sacrament of Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. to the Coventry patients she has looked after for more than 30 years. The 60-year-old animal lover has retired from the Tile Hill Tile Hill is a suburb in the west of Coventry. The railway line linking Rugby, Coventry and Birmingham goes through Tile Hill, and Tile Hill railway station is within Tile Hill near its eastern border with Solihull. Health Clinic, in Jardine Crescent, after serving the community for more than three decades. But Tereasa, of Park Hill Lane, Allesley, is not planning to take it easy - she hopes to spend her days caring for her horses and three dogs. The popular nurse was given a special send-off at the Tile Hill base, by colleagues that she has worked with since 1977. She said: "I have really enjoyed working at the Tile Hill Health Clinic, I wouldn't have wanted to do anything else. "I will miss all of my patients and colleagues, who have become very good friends to me over the years. But I am looking forward to spending more time at home with my dogs and my horses, which I keep with my daughter on some land near our home. "I am feeling sad, but it is just the end of one phase in my life and the start of a new one. I know that I will keep in touch with a lot of people from the clinic. They mean too much to me, not to." CAPTION(S): DS280308NURS NURS Norwich Union Risk Services (UK) NURS Non-UCIT Retail Schemes 1 THREE DECADES OF CARE... Retiring nurse Tereasa McDermott is wished well by colleagues at the Tile Hill Health Clinic. Picture: Darryl Smith |
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