Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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Our mother
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Joan, Mel and I kept as much of a vigil at mums' bedside, as we were able and cried a river as her life ebbed away. Broken hearted, but at the same time thankful to God that she has been taken to a better place and will never know suffering again. The loyalty of my frtends and friends on facebook is overwhelming and I know mum would embrace you all for the way you've supported her family.</p>
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My friend Jan Yuill has been an angel, to the point of staying overnigh at the hospital one night, to give me a break. There was nothing too small or too great that she wouldn't have done for the family. My friend Barb Smail has been another angel, being by my side through all this with her thoughts, prayers. phone calls, lunches, and love. </p>
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Joyce Smith, Margaret Hopper, Rita Ariss, Marlene Hull, Angela Pierman, Emma Lacey, Maianne Bremer, to name but a few of my loyal friends who have been such a support to me. Special mention to Dawn Cooke, a staff member from Rosebridge Manor nursng home who visited mum regularly and to Karen and Janet from Rosebridge who are all yet to be thanked appropriately by the family, for their wonderful bedside care of our dear mum. My heart is in shreds, in spite of mums' new found peace and the hole she left in my heart will never be filled. Hard to grasp I'll never hold her again. </p>
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To all of you who lost a mother, I know your pain now, my heart goes out to you all.</p>
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This is a poem I wrote on behalf of Joan and I, as I sat tough hours at mums' beside. painfully watching her slowly fade away:-</p>
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There's no expression on your face,</p>
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The look of death is in its' place,</p>
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Your eyes are blank you do not see</p>
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the tears we've shed abundantly,</p>
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Oh for one more day with you,</p>
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to do what mums and daughters do</p>
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To walk the old familiar trails,</p>
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we shared before your health had failed. </p>
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But now we know there's no more time, </p>
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Our grief's a mountain yet to climb.</p>
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We know your angels wait for you</p>
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and in Gods' time will come for you</p>
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For those of us you leave behind, </p>
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You've given forever memories to bind</p>
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to the woman that we knew before</p>
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About to enter Heavens' door. </p>
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Your love for us has been our guide</p>
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Our needs so often you supplied.....</p>
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Counsel, comfort, love and prayer,</p>
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You, our mother, met us there</p>
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So now it's time to say goodbye</p>
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Broken hearted you have to die</p>
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Knowing you leave for a better place</p>
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With no more sorrow by Gods' Grace</p>
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Maybe tears have been in vain</p>
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Because we know WE'LL MEET AGAIN! .</p>
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Goodbye our precious mum and friend</p>
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You lived courageously to the end.</p>
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Good bye mum and rest in peace.</p>
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From Vivian and Joan</p>
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