![]() ![]() The growth was on but not in Jeremy’s pancreas. “The next morning we went back and they took us into a little room and told us it was bad news: he had a growth on his abdomen.”īiopsies followed but the results were inconclusive. “I think that was just because they didn’t want to tell him while he was on his own,” says Diane. Eventually doctors told him they couldn’t get his results because the computers were down. Jeremy told Diane to go home, that he’d message me when he was finished. The doctors ran tests and hours passed as they waited. “The GP thought he had an aortic aneurysm and told him to go straight to hospital.” The pain increased the next morning, and so Diane consulted her friend who worked at the local doctor’s surgery and got Jeremy an appointment. “He came back to mine for some food that evening and told me his back was aching really badly. “In March 2019, Jeremy’s son joined the Royal Navy and he drove him down to Portsmouth,” recalls Diane, now 64 and still living in Cardiff. Then came the diagnosis that upended everything. They planned how they’d merge their households and visited potential wedding venues. Jeremy surprised Diane with weekends away in Tenby, the Lake District, and Cornwall, where they stayed in Port Isaac, the setting of her favourite TV show, Doc Martin.Īfter a year, Jeremy and Diane got engaged. One of their favourite things to do was to walk together, endlessly looping Cardiff Bay, stopping for a bite to eat, then taking the bus home. That night, as Diane was gushing on the phone to her friends about the evening, Jeremy wrote on the dating site: “Thank you, Match, I’ve met my dream.” The connections didn’t end there: she’d let a flat to his best friend’s daughter and her childhood best friend was his son’s mother-in-law. It’s a wonder their paths had never crossed as they were from the same area in South Wales and, as they soon discovered, had even been at school together. Jeremy was a retired accountant taking a tentative step into the world of dating, having lost his wife three years before. ![]() They met on in 2017 and went on their first date on Valentine’s Day that year. It was a bittersweet end to the couple’s whirlwind romance. The wedding had been organised in a matter of hours, with a somewhat unconventional venue – instead of a church or registry office, it took place in the Marie Curie hospice where Jeremy spent his final days. It wasn’t unexpected Jeremy had been suffering from cancer and was given a very short prognosis. Six days after the wedding, her new husband died. I find it quite hard to look back at our photographs of that day because it was so emotional,” says Diane, a lettings agent. The room was decorated with balloons, more flowers and champagne flutes sat ready, and family and friends looked on. Her husband-to-be, Jeremy Meazey, 56, was in a suit, sporting a smart new watch. ![]() The then 57-year-old walked up the aisle on her brother’s arm to the sound of The Lady In Red by Chris De Burgh. On her wedding day, Diane Meazey wore a bright scarlet dress and clutched an elegant bouquet of white roses. ![]()
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