May 2, 2020
4 min read
Today Is My Mother’s Birthday
And I celebrate though she’s no longer here
My mother was ill as long as I could remember; she had what she called a ‘bad heart’ and it wasn’t until I was older that I understood that she lived with imminent heart failure most of her life.
Yet live she did, for seventy-seven years before her heart finally gave out. Her heart consultant once described mum to…
