My mum died on the 25th of May 2020 of dementia I’m doing a short story on how my mum impacted my life and what she did for me.
My mum was born on the 12th of March 1927 she was born in a Fife town called Thornton she was born to Margaret and Jim Taylor who are my Gran and grandad and her sister Jesse they both had a good life with their mum and dad they maybe didn’t have much. but gran never let it show that her life was hard when World War Two was on.
My grandad Jim Taylor drove trains the old steam trains.
Mum had several jobs but the first big job she got was with a company in Kirkcaldy called James gentle and son chartered quantity surveyors mum was a proof reader right into her elderly years you could not make a mistake or mum would pick holes in it.
when my solicitor wrote to me once my mum picked holes in the letter within seconds telling me that all the grammar errors and bad spelling and that was from the lawyers office.
Mum and dad thought they could not have children so they adopted me at the age of five months only then to discover they were pregnant with my sister.
Mum being such a remarkable woman told no one she was expecting in case they stopped the adoption.
She only told people after the adoption of legally through the courts.
Knowing she was having her biological child she could easily have discarded me but she didn’t she loved me unconditionally and never made a difference between my sister and I.
As a child I was not an easy child they thought I had learning disability which turned out not to be true.
My teenage years were difficult I broke the law more than once and alcohol was my best friend. Throughout everything I did wrong my mum stood by my side and supported me unconditionally. For me to have a mum like her was amazing she to me was one in 1 million.
She struggled through life with a hairclip and cleft palate which was never fixed. But 30 years ago she was discovered to have Temporal arteritis which left her with peripheral vision in one eye and numerous other health issues that came with this condition.
Mum just got on With it you would never of known that she had pins and needles on her feet 24 seven and could not feel her feet as she walked faster than most.
My mum was an inspiration to me she taught me how to live on my own how to cope when the time came that I would lose her what to do and what not to do more what not to do.
I will be forever grateful to God for allowing me to have this woman my mum in my life because she was quite frankly a gift from God to me.
God bless everyone who reads this and I wish you well.
