Spending time with an Angel

Paul Lazor

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Spending Time with an Angel is a diary in which Paul Lazor documents all stages of his wife, Julie, during her battle against leukaemia. We can clearly see how love, sorrow, and resiliency play an integral role in their lives throughout the book. It portrays a life filled with routine activities and common aspirations, as well as the warmth and humour in the family and the couple’s exchanges that highlight their close friendship from the outset. As symptoms emerged, his wife’s gradual decline was accompanied by struggles with worry and confusion. As the course of therapy goes on, the diary entries get increasingly melancholy, and along with Julie’s hardships, the emotional agony is ever-present.This story depicts the emotional ups and downs of chronic disease through contrasting moments of hope and despair.Readers will learn more about the intricacies of love during trying times by reading this diary. The book reflects a difficult journey, portraying a heartbreaking situation through the eyes of a man remembering his wife.Paul Lazor, born Pawlo Lazor in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, in 1955, is the son of refugees who came from Eastern Europe after the end of the Second World War. I transferred to a grammar school at the age of 16 and eventually to the University of Birmingham, where I studied Science. I graduated in 1976 and embarked upon a career in the Sale of scientific instruments to Industry. I travelled to Eastern Europe and Russia, encountering the Secret Police and Donald Maclean, the infamous spy.After my first marriage came to a tragic end, I met Julie in 1990, who became my wife and Angel in the story. In 2001, Julie was diagnosed with leukaemia, and she passed away in 2005. In 2014, after a period of calm and tranquillity in my life, I decided to start a new life in Spain. After retiring in 2022 and learning to speak Spanish to a reasonable standard, I am now teaching Spanish as an enjoyable hobby to expats from England.

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