Trish was my mum. But she was also a nurse. The photo above was taken when she was 19, and she was still working nearly fifty years later, when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. 

Because she was a nurse, she knew what was going to happen. And she knew that we didn't. Right from the beginning, she said she wanted to spend her last days in a hospice, and not at home. She spent the last three weeks of her life in Trinity Hospice in Blackpool, and they did their very best for her, and for the rest of us. 

I loved my mum very much. She spent so much of her life looking after people and we are all grateful that there were people so well qualified to look after her when it mattered. Hospices are amazing places, and they rely on donations. So if you would like to make a donation in memory of Trish, it will be going to a very good home. 

jo x

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