Middowed
Hello, I’m Debbie, Dan’s mum.
This blog is my way of coping with Dan’s sudden death in a road accident in 2018. I deal with grief and sadness and sometimes a little hope.
I’ve written a memoir, Middowed, and I’m looking for a bold agent to take it on and help me take mine and Dan’s story out into the world. It follows my path of loss in the 12 months after Dan died and weaves in and out of Dan’s story from birth to fifteen.
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Tides
I’ve been recording series 2 of the Bereaved Parents’ Club podcast. In the first episode, I chatted with another bereaved mum who also lost her child in 2018. We feel we’re at a similar ‘stage’ with our grief, being able to function healthily most of the time. We talked about ‘phase two’ of grief -…
Second Thoughts
[I wrote this on Tuesday 21st May but couldn’t bring myself to post it until today.] My lovely dog Maggie was put to sleep yesterday. She was about 14 years old. She loved and trusted me completely. I loved her unconditionally. She was my baby girl, Miss Maggie Moo, Maggie T Dog, Da Magsta. I…
Bereaved Parents’ Club
This time last year I was getting ready to start the new job I so badly failed at. But, one of the brilliant things that came out of it was meeting Lauren. I’d already had the fortune to meet Tracy, another mum bereaved of her only son. Both of us would rather we’d never met,…
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About Me
I’m Debbie. I’m a fifty-something Middow* and Disabled Students’ Allowance Assessor** and a blogger***
*Middow is a coined term for a mother who has lost her only child
**Disabled Students’ Allowance Assessor is someone who helps HE disabled students get government-funded support.
***trainee/incompetent blogger to be exact.
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