Coming to Terms

A personal memoir covering the period from when my Mum was diagnosed with a brain tumour, completely out of the blue, to when she passed away three months later.

This very sad time in my life occurred over 20 years ago when my Mum was driving to my house one morning as we were going away for the weekend.  En route, she suffered an epileptic fit and was taken to A&E. She was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour later that day and given three months to live. Mum was finally discharged when it was evident that nothing further could be done to prolong her life. She moved in with my husband and I for the final precious weeks we had with her and every two to three weeks my sister would travel down from her home and stay with Mum in her flat for a long weekend. This meant my sister could spend some time with Mum, and my husband and I could take a short break from caring for her.

My memoir covers our time caring for her, to then arranging her funeral and our life in the early days thereafter.