Natalie85's blog

I felt like blogging because I'm feeling a little sad today, a year ago on this day I arrived home back In Australia after 5 years in London. Today was also the day we had our family meeting with the hospital nurses and doctors and learnt of the reality of mums condition. It's a sad time for me remembering the lead up to moving back home, feeling relentless anxiety for mum, not knowing what to expect yet fearing the worst…

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865

To my dear mum,

 

5 long months have passed now... though the tears keep flowing, I found a poem you wrote down that  I know you kept near to you...

 

Well it's officially begun for me... the year of the "firsts" First year without my mum on my birthday yesterday... I generally am all up for celebrations but this year ... What can I say, I woke up crying, set my sister off crying, went to visit mum at the cemetry and cried and spent the rest of the day in a pretty awful mood.. it'll be 3 months this friday I wish i could say its getting easier but it really hasn't.…