Sometimes we experience times of adjusting to the things we loose then we adapt and carry on
Loosing things is always a worry .
Like the day I lost my Mammy in the C & A department store in the town . I was not even knee high and it was nearly Christmas .
All the stores were packed with shoppers . Mammy was looking for some Christmas presents , I was looking all around me . One minute Mammy was there and the next minute she was gone . It was like the ground just opened up and swallowed me , my whole world had disappeared .
I started screaming and crying .
Traumatized at three years of age is not a thing you forget easily .
Thank God Mammy found me so I never became an orphan .
Then there was the day I lost my appendix . That was an experience I’ll not forget . It’s not like I had any choice , in what happened . They chose to leave my body . So I woke up as I did like any other day.
I got ready for primary school and had a bowl of porridge ,
Mammy walked with my sister and I to the nursery school down Cambria Street with another wee baby in the pram . I remember her whispering under her breath ,
“Jesus we’re going to be late again” and she held on to my hand as we made our way past a street corner near the pawnbrokers .
“Good morning “
said one of the three men who would always be standing
on that same corner .every single day .
“Mammy always nodded and kept walking . After dropping off my sister at the nursery school we went back down Flax Street past the mill where mammy worked and I still remember her say ..
“ Is your stomach still sore son ?“
“Yes “ I said .
“ Well you better not go to school then , you can stay in your grannies, until I finish work ok .“
So she took me and the baby in the pram to my grannies house and then she went on her way to work .
That morning all I could do was throw up . I was sent to bed and my Aunt went rushing to get Mammy out of work and she got Doctor Murray to come .
“His appendix needs to come out Mary ‘
He said .
I was taken in an ambulance to the city hospital for an operation .
As soon as I got there every thing seemed to be done quickly and in desperation . There were other wee boys in there screaming and carrying on , some had to have their tonsils removed others had to have cartilages taken out and a couple were in with a fever related sickness .
That evening they took out my appendix and the nurse asked me if I wanted to take them home in a jar . I wasn’t sure what to say so I asked Daddy when he came to visit me and he said he would take them home in the car .
I didn’t realise that they were all just taking the mickey as there was no need to hang on to my appendix .
Next day I left the hospital and was soon back to myself again after a couple of weeks .
After I had lost my appendix I started to wonder what was the next thing I might loose .
I hoped it wouldn’t be my marbles cause I had some smashing buller’s
and multicoloured sharp shooters .
Then it happened , out of the blue , another thing got lost , but thank God it wasn’t attached to me .
As Mammy and I were off to the town she closed the front door all of a sudden she had this worried look on her face . I asked her what was wrong . Then she said she had locked up the house and left the key in the kitchen . So the two of us walked through the gap between McAteers and Joe Soaps house , to the back entry and then into our back yard . The door was never locked . She looked at the top scullery window that was left open .
“Do you think you can get in that window son .“
At the back door , Jacky McAteer from next door came into our back yard and said ,
“Hello is everything ok Mary ?”
Poor Mammy was embarrassed .
“ I locked the house and forgot the key .”
She said and Jacky seemed a wee bit concerned but offered no thoughts of what to do so I climbed up the drain pipe to the window sill then scurried through the window there that was open and falling softly into the kitchen sink inside the house . I felt just like a burglar .
I opened the back door .
Mammy was glad she didn’t have to break the window pane .
Jackie seemed relieved and content that the problem was fixed and went back home again .
Jackie came over later and said to Mammy ,
“Could wee Paul get in the scullery window for me?”
“Sure what happened ?”
Mammy asked .
Jackie replied
“I locked the house and forgot to take the key with me .
It’s funny how other people loose things too cause then you see you’re not alone
One thing I’ve never lost sight of is how beautiful mammy was .
Even though she has passed away
I have never lost her . She is always in my heart .
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