- Name: Joanna
- Surname: Slater
- About Me: I first started to write notes purely as a reminder of all the things that happened to my mother throughout the first few weeks when she arrived in hospital for a hip operation.
Each day before I started work I would enter onto my computer all my notes from the previous day. I never thought that I would still be writing six months later. My notes have become an up-to-date diary of my mother and how her condition deteriorated during this terrible, and tragic course of events. It has also allowed me to capture all the memories of our time together, the laughs, the tears, the precious words spoken, and I captured it all.
I published my mother’s notes onto my blog, and then extracts of my mother’s story from my blog was published in the Mail on Sunday in June 2011.
I had no idea what would have happened next. I had over one thousand hits on my blog and emails of hundreds of people telling me of their own tragic stories. I knew then that writing my notes was for a reason.
My blog has grown into an information base with links, pages, and news items.
I want to bring an awareness to everyone to write everything down when you or your loved one go into hospital, as it’s so easy to forget.
I published a book on my mothers story when she was in hospital called The Last Six Months, and I also added stories of 50 other people (taken from my blog.
I leave you this quote from Elie Wiesel
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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