Sad loss

I have not been blogging for some time because, on Wednesday of last week, my lovely lovely mother died. She had been ill for some time and - as the result of negligible effective treatment at the hands of medics in two hospitals - she went home to try to deal with numerous complications of a liver abscess, and died of a pulmonary embolism. I am devastated. Without my mum, my life simply would not have been possible; without her, the joys would not have been as acute, the setbacks and sadnesses would have received no balm of kindness and love. She was, as all her friends have been telling me in recent days, a very special person. I miss her so much, the pain is a physical pain.