As he was wheeled into theatre for surgery to fix a broken right hip, grandfather-of-seven George Leeson was joking with the surgeon that he hoped he had 'sharpened his knives'.George, then 94 and a father of three, also cheerily told nurses that as soon as he recovered from the surgery for the break — the result of falling out of bed — he would be resuming his weekly dancing sessions and regular get-togethers with his family, during which he enjoyed nothing more than chatting about the prospects of his beloved Arsenal football team.But none of this would happen. In fact, George's light-hearted exchange with the medical team would be one of the last truly coherent things he would say.
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