Goodbye Mum

Goodbye Mum. A short but meaningful life

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Peacefully sleeping

Mum is peacefully sleeping now. Rousing, barely, to smile at the sound of her children talking, sharing stories.

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Cheated

I’ve been cheated. Mum will never be an old woman. Dad was never an old man. It’s the odd little things that catch me

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Don’t panic

I have really struggled with understanding what I need to write about this week. It seems much harder, which is probably a great reflection of the rollercoaster week it’s been.

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Playing statues

Today Mum is still like statue. She’s here but she’s not. Her body isn’t reading any signals to move and her face shows peace.

I dress her in her pretty shirt that she picked out, help her into a chair, put her tiny tub of Bircher muesli and cup of tea next to her and we both sit. Still. Like statues.

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How do you define one day from the next when you are dying

How do we define one day from the next when you are dying? How are you? It’s how we greet. Sometimes we care about the answer other times we don’t

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The odd one out

This is the second post in a series about my mother’s journey to her death. It’s hard feeling like the odd one out. I am an introvert in an extroverted

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Bittersweet news

Bittersweet news to learn that Mum is dying and it’s a relief for her physically, emotionally and spiritually

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Postcards from a mum

Some postcards I drew and wrote for an exhibition at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in 2007

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Mothering

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