At the time my mum died one of the first things I wanted to do is get down my immediate thoughts about the passing of her life. Below is the transcript thatI wrote and was read out in full at her funeral on 12th April 2010
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APril 6th 2010 this is a day I will never forget . It started with a brief pause for thought as it would have been my late father's birthday. I had to go to work as there was only a few days left befiore the holiday. As soon as I got to work and done several jobs I phoned to see how mum was as I had not had any phone calls during the night. I was told she was sleeping , I knew then something was going to be bad that day…
Woke up very early and telphoned the home to see if Mum was still with us so that I could bring her friend to see her. Everything seemed a bit better as they said she had had a quiet and peacful night and she was awake and had a wash etc. I took her friend to se her and for nearly an hour they sat there and held hads and chatted to each other. Mum seemed to drawing some strenght somewhere to speak but not too much , she…
Sunday , and it was time to see mum again after having a day away. She did not look as well as Friday and complained that the 'DUCK' was too heavy for her. I felt that the end was beginning and when she could speak and understand me I asked her if she wanted to see her best friend on Monday as it was a bank holiday. She said yes that would be nice. The rest of the time she was drifing in and out of the present , often…
This was Saturday , I was off the case on that day as the daughters of my Step-father were coming from around the country to visit mum. I kept in touch with my sister who was also visiting mum as much as she could as well when I could not be there or when I wanted a break. From what I was told and what I could see from the previous days there was only a small window of good communication time with mum around 10am in the…
