[Josy]

My mum passed away when I was 21 and I was devastated because we were extremely close, we have a really large family including a few brothers that my parents adopted and we were all and still are really close.

My dad took my mums death really really hard and had a stroke the same morning she passed away (he ended up in the ward next to her in the hospital) he was ok for a while after that but recently had another stroke that affected his brain so atm he's in a brain recovery residence about 2 hours away and I phone him every day and visit every week, he has trouble remembering me though sometimes and that can be quite hard to deal with.

But I'm still as close to him as I possibly can be.