A heartbroken husband has shared his final moments with his wife before she suddenly died after collapsing.
Samantha Kimber, 52, died on November 29 after collapsing with a bleed on the brain just days earlier.
Husband Richard Kimber told YorkshireLive : "We probably never will get over this and in some respects, I don't want to.
"I feel privileged and lucky to have been a part of her life for 11 years."
Richard and Sam got together in 2010, just before she launched her own dog grooming business, Woof Cutz.
Richard said: "We put a statement on the Woof Cutz business page on Facebook and the comments on there have been overwhelming.
"I had to stop reading them because every comment was just making me cry."
Sam leaves behind a son and daughter, who joined Richard at Leeds General Infirmary to say goodbye last week.
She collapsed on Friday morning and doctors spent the weekend trying to stabilise her while investigating the bleed on her brain.
Sam was due to have surgery on the Monday morning but suffered a cardiac arrest before it could take place.
Richard recalled: "We got a call and they said you need to come now.
"Jess, her daughter, said has she had her procedure? And they said no but you need to come now.
"You know it's a bad sign when they come in mob-handed, literally six of them."
Sam was on life support and would not wake up, medics told the family.
As she was an organ donor, doctors had to move fast to save another patient's life so it was time for them to say goodbye.
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Richard said: "We went in and had a lovely three hours with her - me, her daughter, her son and her best friend Amanda - sat on her bed, holding her hand, stroking her hair, which she would have hated. She hated people in her personal space.
"They came in and said we really need to go on now and we said yep fine. We said our final goodbyes in turn and we left.
"We had already agreed we would go to the pub after. Sam would have been the first one there."
Richard described Sam as a "colourful character and her language was equally colourful".
Richard said she wanted her wake to be a celebration of life and she didn't miss the chance to play a trick on her family.
He said: "The only cremation slot we could get was Christmas Eve. She f*****g hated Christmas.
"But we're never going to have to set a date reminder to celebrate her life. The world is going to tell us that Christmas is coming and we're going to be celebrating Sam's life.
"The ceremony we're going to have on Christmas Eve will be all about celebrating her life, she didn't want a sombre affair, she wanted us to enjoy the time to talk and think about her and then just have a party afterwards."
Richard has set up a JustGiving page for donations in Sam's memory for Dogs Trust.
