01/07/2025
JULY IS BEREAVED PARENTS MONTH
This is my lovely Nanna Betty, and even though my Mum was a grown up and parent herself when she died at 59, it left my Nan as a bereaved parent. She still had to bury her middle child, which by the natural order of things, shouldn't happen.
How to describe my Nan? Well in the words of "she be but little, she is fierce".
In fact we chose to have this engraved on her headstone. 🪦
I remember she slept one night in my Mum's bed, the night after Mum died. I lay down the corridor in my childhood bedroom wondering how Nan felt during those hours? What was going through her mind? What did she talk about to Mum? Did she sleep? Did she even want to?
It must have been shattering for her. 💔
And after we picked ourselves up off the floor in post traumatic shock of my Mum's death, my Nan was immense in her strength. Over the next few years, she helped me more emotionally and physically, than anyone else in my life.
I always knew how incredibly lucky I was to have both Nan and Mum as the intelligent, independent, hardworking women they were, but to see how she fought on after losing her child, will remain with me forever.
I miss her immensely.
And my heart is with all of you who have ever had to experience the loss of a child, no matter their age.
With love ###
