So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother

by Richard Lung

Overview

I apologise for my imperfections of journal presentation. (This is journal number 7 - by instalments.) However, they give my aged, impaired mother, Ella the right to speak, that social services Best Interest meeting denied her. In these journals, she claims her right to love and liberty, which has been denied her.
As John Milton said, hundreds of years ago, a nation that no longer values liberty to speak the truth, becomes a sixth rate nation. (Since 1989, Britain has had secret courts of family law, and of protection, for the young and old, respectively. Disclosers of their proceedings are thrown in jail.)
I have tried to catch the nature of Mums loss of a sense of time and place, in order to better understand it. I have treated her dream-like versions of reality, as her impaired minds functional attempts to hold her memories together, as best she can, and preserve her identity as an individual and my beloved mother.
Social services detained my mother from coming back to her house, from a care home. It's a long story, told in the other journals, in the series. Ella, an impaired 95 year-old lost her memory. A treasure trove of memory is still there, but she cannot reliably access it. Having lived with my mother for seventy years, I am the one person she wants to be with. Ella still has her intelligence.
It's as if a computer processor was still functional but is thrown on the scrap heap, for want of a memory deficiency, that could be relieved by an external memory drive. My life-long companionship puts me in a unique position to fill in Mums memory blanks, to the great improvement of her quality of life.
Social services have obstructed that alleviation of Ellas condition. And caused her untold distress - untold, that is, till I brought out this journal series on Family-splitting.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164270674
Publisher:	Richard Lung
Publication date:	10/04/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
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About the Author

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.
I have been the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform.

While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.

Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....

Authors have played a big part in my life.
Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?
But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.

I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!