What a beautiful day it turned out to be for mums across Courier Country to be properly celebrated, as well they deserve to be.
Flower-filled vases and handmade cards will take pride of place on mantlepieces all over for the days ahead, but a couple of hundred miles from Angus there is one mummy with more reason that most to be proud.
From the very earliest days of her daughter Ruby’s arrival, Diane Boyd has watched her little battler take on setback after setback in her fight against cystic fibrosis and the crippling, life-threatening effect on the wee one’s badly damaged lungs.
For the past two-and-a-half years Ruby has been a priority transplant case, and for more than 100 days has fought her battle from hospital beds in Edinburgh and Newcastle.
She defied the odds at Christmas when a collapsed lung left family, friends – and the many people worldwide who have followed her journey on social media – fearing the worst.
Those people all now have reason to celebrate after donor organs were finally found just days after she turned 10.
Mum Diane has experienced the joy of seeing her little girl breathe by herself and the greatest belated Mother’s Day gift will be when the 10-year-old gets her voice back, which will surely not be long for the courageous kid.
Ruby met Olly at a Glasgow gig and here’s hoping she can see the singer again in the not too distant future and prove she’s a fighting fit Troublemaker.
The wait has been long, but the wee Angus gem has been given a chance to shine through the remarkable generosity of the donor’s family in what mum Diane has already acknowledged as a “truly selfless act”.
Around 500 Scots are on a transplant list at any given time, but the number of donors is still currently not enough to meet demand.
As Scotland works towards an opt-out organ donation system it is difficult to think of any greater argument in its favour than the story of the little Angus angel.
