"My Mum"

I’m a 53 year old guy, but your mum is your mum and always will be!

We thought we had done everything right, sis was going to USA on holiday so I’ll have my week hol in Scotland to be near mum. I live in York. Yep, Of course mum becomes ill that week. 

Long story cut short mum ends up in Hairmyres hospital with breathing problems. They get to the bottom of the problem and set about fixing it and mum picks up. Mum is right as rain and almost out then the day I am travelling back home she has a little temperature. Dr says she will monitor. I head home. 

The next evening get a bad call, mum is very poorly with multiple complications so I race back to the hospital. Things are really bad, The consultant took me aside and told me mum won’t make it. Sis is just off plane and we are devastated. 

But the utter heroes in wards 18b and 13 at Hairmyres hospital are having absolutely none of it! I mentioned to nurse John, when I was most down, what the consultant had said. He said he knew but that they would give it everything to keep mum alive. This is exactly what they all did, the doctors were utterly fantastic, just so caring and considerate of our views. The nurses  really are all angels, I am blown away with what they all did. I could single out individual names but it wouldn’t be fair because they were all superb. What made it was their humour. We really needed that when times were dark.  Auxiliaries were fabulous, mum was off her food, and, as an example, a fabulous lady said to mum what would she like? Custard and apple pie says mum. Right you are, and off she tootles to get for mum! My goodness what care and thoughtfulness, I’m just blown away.

So mum defied the consultant, it’s not her time yet, I think that is mainly due to the auxiliaries, nurses and doctors of wards 18b and 13 of Hairmyres hospital. Words really can’t convey how much I appreciate what you have all done for mum and her family. 

You should know though you have made a mum’s wee boy very happy