Thank you everyone, you really are a lovely bunch. It will be a year next month since our daughter died and what with my mum, it has been a horrid year.
She was a straight A student in her youth and a brilliant musician. She spoke 3 languages fluently, was passionate about her job and a thoroughly caring lady. She can barely write her name now, can't even pick out a simple tune on the piano, can't take in anything she reads, and her table manners are appalling. She is completely incontinent. She has gone from a professional lady who always wore a very expensive, well- tailored business suit, hand bag matching her shoes and had her beautiful, snow white hair, set every week. To a dirty smelly harridan who hates the sight of me.
I am an only child (my dad was killed when I was 3 weeks old) mum and I have always been close, there was just the 2 of us. She was very proud of my nursing achievements and had all my certificates framed and hanging in her sitting room (the only time she made me embarrassed)
I nearly lost this post just now, it completely went! I'm so glad I save it every so often as I write so that I don't have to start over.
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