Dundee. Their son Graeme Jr said he went “completely white” when he got a call telling him his father Graeme Sr had died at Ninewells Hospital.
He was travelling home from Roxburghe House, a specialist palliative care unit in Aberdeen, having said his final farewell to his mother Margaret. “There was just an hour between the deaths – you couldn’t write the script on that,” Mr Carling.The day after her death, Mrs Carling’s phone received a text message asking her to arrange for her Covid vaccination.Mr Carling said there had been days where he had wanted to “hide under the covers”, but that his parents would have wanted him to carry on driving his business - McGill building services and construction contractor.“It’s obviously been tough..