Did you hear the Dad who was trying to find his son,the man was dying and was in tears,must admit,that did tug a few heart strings,it is a real man that cries.He only has a few weeks left.
jeremy announced today that the son has now contacted his dad and they will be meeting very soon, good ending to a sad storey 
yes i heard that, just shows how 2 people arguments can affect a lot more then just there selves. i hope the guy hears about it and gets in touch
Poor guy does not go to bed in case it his last night,he did find his son,as posted.
im so glad, i hope there is closure for the both of them. horrific really as there are millions of people estranged in such a way.
mikey-t:
yes i heard that, just shows how 2 people arguments can affect a lot more then just there selves. i hope the guy hears about it and gets in touch
It wasnt an argument they had, he said they just drifted apart…
How do you drift apart from your dad 
I’m on about the argument between him and his wife, the break up .,she then moved away and then the father and son drifted away. my parents did much the same and i have met my dad once in 28 years, thats why i took a good long listen and have tried to contact my dad since
My dad was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2000. I went over to B’ham to be with him for his operation.(I was living in Dublin at the time.)
He had the op, and was sent home. We had a fall out whilst he was waiting for his prescription prior to his release. It was something trivial as I recall.
I took him home and told him I was cutting my stay short and was driving to Holyhead for the boat. I told him what a Royal PITA he was but I loved him.
2 weeks later,I received a phone call in Ireland from the coroner. My dad was found dead by the home help. He’d had a pulmonary embolism 2 days after I left and died instantly.
They’d taken 2 weeks to track me down. Never got over that. Families are crap.
bigvern1:
My dad was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2000. I went over to B’ham to be with him for his operation.(I was living in Dublin at the time.)
He had the op, and was sent home. We had a fall out whilst he was waiting for his prescription prior to his release. It was something trivial as I recall.I took him home and told him I was cutting my stay short and was driving to Holyhead for the boat. I told him what a Royal PITA he was but I loved him.
2 weeks later,I received a phone call in Ireland from the coroner. My dad was found dead by the home help. He’d had a pulmonary embolism 2 days after I left and died instantly.
They’d taken 2 weeks to track me down. Never got over that. Families are crap.
Way back in the eighties my father was lying in his hospital bed after having two kidney transplants and years of complications, the last time I saw him alive we fell out me storming out of his room and off down the corridor. Next time I came to see him a few days later nurses and doctors wee rushing about everywhere he,d had a major bleed and died of heart failure before I got to see him.
Tis’ a bar stard alright. 
jessicas dad:
How do you drift apart from your dad
He marries another woman, you take out time to find him after 25 years…Meet him, realise he is a lovely bloke…Then, the phone number is changed and you hear through the grapevine that his wife doesn`t want him to have contact with you, then, to add insult to injury, you hear that the wife is making up salacious stories about you, in an attempt to keep the distance of the previous 25 years.
It`s a funny old world…But I have had to put up with worse 
jessicas dad:
How do you drift apart from your dad
It’s interesting coming from a broken family, no sob stories, but yes I think you can drift away from your parents…Mum’s aren’t entirely fautless either
Me and my old man have dirfted apart I used to see him every other weekend up to 20 years old, then left for uni and work etc. I always used to have to call him to see if he is alive then when we was “close” not vice versa, however can I be bothered now?!
Hardly seen him now in the last 4 years, only main contact through phone calls, but still always me calling him. Get more phone calls and contact from his brother and his wife, who live up North!
Also his brother says the same thing about him not being in contact but has given up on him now.
As for what att said I think that is what has happened with my Dad with regards to marrying another woman. My Dad lives approx 6 miles away from me, passes my residence every day to his depot too and yet has never come in my flat the 7 years I’ve lived here and never even attended my wedding this year, didn’t even reply to the invite. 
But on the other hand he can’t do enough for my stepsisters etc! You have to laugh really
att:
He marries another woman etc…
Unfortunately I ain’t too worried, my wife worries more than I about these situations. And my Mum isn’t any better (before I look like I am slagging my Dad off) when she moved to Wales 7 years ago, which went horribly wrong for her, she’s never in contact too!
However my both sets of my grandparents when they were alive were the best parents I could ever ask for (always looked after me so well as a child), but now they are dead, bar one who I am in contact with at least twice a week, who still worries like a parent.
So I still have a “parent” look out for me! 
Still need it at my grand old age of 32, my granddad reckons!
Not all bad then, so I can understand how easily it happens and that’s without any arguments!
Perhaps…I’m the bad one for not constantly trying to make contact with them both all the time…I’m not a parent so I don’t know what the protocol is for offspring contact 
Good luck on the “Jeremy Vines dying Dad`s plea 8/3/12” pair meeting up though and trying to reconnect before time has to come to an end for the Dad. Fair play for him trying to find his son before it is really too late! 
C