{"id":182,"date":"2025-08-08T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:36:56","slug":"our-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Our Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To remember Mum on her birthday, I am sharing these very personal words, which I wrote for, and read out at her funeral last month. (I have removed names for privacy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is only a 3% chance of both parents developing dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people might say that my sister and I have been unlucky. Those people didn\u2019t know our Mum and Dad. They were the best parents anyone could ever wish for. We have been blessed indeed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Mum was a role model to my sister and me and to her 3 granddaughters, of how a wife, mother and homemaker should be.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a description of our Mum in the Bible in Galatians chapter 5: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, our Mum didn\u2019t hold any bias or prejudice against anyone. She accepted everyone just the way they are. Even if there was something that she didn\u2019t really agree with, she would just say, &#8220;we\u2019re all different.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her family was our Mum\u2019s whole world. In January 2024 having been diagnosed with cancer, Mum was given just months to live. But the [Smith] stubbornness kept her alive for another year and a half. During that time, she met her great-grandson and\u00a0enjoyed numerous visits from family and going\u00a0out for lunch. During my last visit, although dementia had made her forget who I was, she still said, \u201cmy nephew [John Smith].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just blood relatives who were loved by our Mum. After my husband\u2019s Mum died in 2003, our Mum became his Mum too. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of our final phone call, just a few days before she died, she said, \u201cLove you too sweetheart.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Mum was a quiet lady who didn\u2019t like a fuss. That is how she lived and that is how she died. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a little orchid plant on my kitchen windowsill. An orchid has beautiful flowers which stay in bloom for a long time. When the flower has finished, it loses its colour, shrinks a little bit, then quietly falls off the stem. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was our Mum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/495268717_720021363911448_3979322369333551575_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/495268717_720021363911448_3979322369333551575_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/495268717_720021363911448_3979322369333551575_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/495268717_720021363911448_3979322369333551575_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/495268717_720021363911448_3979322369333551575_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To remember Mum on her birthday, I am sharing these very personal words, which I wrote for, and read out at her funeral last month. (I have removed names for privacy). There is only a 3% chance of both parents developing dementia.\u00a0 Some people might say that my sister and I have been unlucky. 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