139,000 UK deaths during the pandemic, many midlife men and women have lost their surviving parent and now find themselves navigating life as an orphan and asking themselves the same questions.
Dipti Solanki is one. She lost her mother when she was 13 through an act of medical negligence and then her father died in January last year of Covid, at 73.‘Ever since my mum died, the biggest fear for my two siblings and I was losing our dad – he was the pillar around which our family revolved,’ says Dipti, 44, a grief recovery coach and mother of two from London. ‘After he died, I felt anchorless.
Your parents are a blueprint for your life and they provide incredible structure but suddenly there was no one to go back to, no reference point.
I’ve been going through perimenopause and I went to see my doctor recently and he asked about my mum’s experience and I realised I didn’t know and I had no one to ask.
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