My Life - Autobiography

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My Life - Autobiography

    I was born in Southport maternity hospital at 6.30am on Thursday 29th September 1988. The day of my birth coincided with the victory of the Great British hockey team in the final of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Consequently, Great Britain won the gold medal. My Dad was not present at my birth because he had stayed up late to watch the hockey and had then fallen asleep. My Mum and Dad decided to call me Samantha, which originates from the Aramaic meaning “listener”.

   After my birth, we lived in Tarleton, near Southport for about four months before moving completely out of the area to a small village called Read. Soon after relocating to Read, my sister, Emma was born.

      Once we had moved to Read, we were fortunate that Lillian and Geoff, who are my Grandparents, lived nearby, in a small village called Simonstone. This helped my mum out in many ways because if she needed anything they were always there, no matter what.

   My other Grandparents, Pat and Bob, my Mum’s parents live in the North East of England in Sunderland. My Mum, Denise, met my father, David at Sunderland General Hospital where they both worked. My Mother worked in the X-ray Department and my Father in the Finance Department. Soon after they were married we moved to Tarleton as my Dad had gained promotion to a post with the Health Authority in Southport.

   Hospitals seem to have played a big part in my life to date. On a personal level I can recall two different occasions, which resulted in trips to the local hospital. The first is an incident, which occurred when I was 4 years old. I had been ill, and my Mum had that morning purchased a bottle of calpol from the local chemist. She was just about to open the bottle so I could receive my first mouthful. When the telephone, (which was situated in the front porch) rang. My Mum placed the calpol, putting the lid on properly, on top of the fridge, believing it to be out of my reach, advised me to stay in the kitchen and left me whilst she answered the telephone.

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   As soon as she had left the room, I managed to take a chair from the dining room table, drag it into the kitchen, and climbed up to a height where I could reach the calpol. Before she had returned, I had managed to open the lid and I had drunk the whole of the bottle.          Unsurprisingly I was sick, fairly quickly, and was taken with some speed, to Burnley General Hospital, where the nurse administered more medicine.

   Although most of my early childhood remains a distant blur, I can also recall the time ...

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