My Mum

Yesterday at 5.40am the Nursing Home rang me to advise my mother's condition was of concern. She was struggling with her breathing and her blood pressure had fallen. When I arrived at the home shortly after I found my mother in bed, attached to an oxygen tank, apparently unconscious.

An ambulance was summoned and my mother's heart stopped on the journey to the hospital. The paramedics resuscitated her but on examination in Emergency it was clear that there was nothing that could be done beyond making her final moments comfortable.

I was by her bedside when my mother passed away at 10.55am. She was eighty-four years old.

My mother lived for me and her love for me was overwhelming. She was the best mother and my closest friend.