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Jane
- Oct 18, 2022
Sto lat, sto lat!
18.10.22 It’s the Jewish holiday, Simchat Torah, and it’s mum’s birthday. Even though she says she was born in 1924, the Lodz Ghetto records and the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database state that she was born in 1923. Which makes her 99 years old today. Mum’s in good spirits unlike previous days when she looked like she was ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door.’ She’s had a rough few weeks - falling over and breaking her hip and femur, and on top of that bad gastro has knocked her


Jane
- Oct 18, 2022
YOU eat!
18.10.22 It’s daylight saving and mum and I are sitting outside. Mum’s dinner has just been served and we’re fighting over the food. I’m trying to encourage her to eat a tiny piece of chicken, but she pushes the fork back at me. I can’t, she implores, You eat it. I put my strict voice on: You have to eat, you’re not eating enough. This frustrating game goes on for awhile. I try again. She shakes her head and her arm at me. YOU eat! I give up and eventually finish her dinner.

Jane
- Oct 3, 2022
Home for Shabbat Lunch
August 2022 Mum’s agitated to say the least. I’ve climbed into her bed to keep an eye on her. She’s so restless, it’s the fourth or fifth time she’s getting out of bed and pulling her pants off. She’s puffed out, wheezing, and has that determined look on her face that means nothing can stop her. I’m tired, it’s 1.30am. I had brought her home twelve hours ago for a cosy Shabbat lunch with Yasha, Gil and me. It felt good and wholesome having her back here again. We had missed h


Jane
- Oct 2, 2022
Full of the best things ever
7.3.22 I always send photos and videos of mum to my family in Israel. Yesterday Alma, my eight year old granddaughter, commented to her mother, Yasmin: Savta Jane will be very sad when nana dies. This is my reply: Hi Yasmin, can you pass this message onto Alma: Hi darling Alma, Yes, it’s true that I’m very attached to nana, and I will be very sad when she dies, but I was also very attached to Adolek, and hung out there lots and took him for many walks in his last years. When