John Milne, 6 March 1974 - 2 October 2011

I have been putting off writing this for so long, but it has to be done. I was right to be worried about John. He died in October 2011, two months after the previous post was written, following an infection. I could not face writing this at the time, it was too painful. But John deserves this closure, for this blog not to be left hanging. And so do the readers of this blog, because there are still around a hundred of those a month, after all this time, and a couple of days ago I had a message from someone wanting to know how we are doing.

I felt (and still do) feel a failure because despite early success, we did not manage to achieve lasting weight loss and most importantly, John did not beat his illness.

Maybe it's best if I leave on this information: the funeral director told us that at the time John died a third of his body weight was excess fluid, caused by his illness.