I'm a man now; a man with many things still to learn and not even half the man my father is. I'm Jonathon Ormerod. Doctor Jonathon Ormerod. A twenty-eight year old father of one, a son and a brother but most importantly a man I hope my parents are proud of.
Born in the late 1960s I couldn't have asked for a better upbringing; a loving mother and devoted father, a brother and sister to look up to and a younger sister to protect. Doctor Gordon Ormerod- my dear father, a man of great talent and true love. Doctor Jill Weatherill- my beautiful mother, a woman of such emotion of maternal instinct. Their relationship had many turns in the beginning and they once nearly scrapped their whole romance altogether, but they fought on.
My dad was a married man on meeting my mum, a father of two already and middle aged but that didn't put her off. When his then wife died after, in what I'm told was, a tragic accident they quickly rekindled their love to both their relief. They married soon after and not too long after that I came along, their first child together. I'm told I completed their family; they were parents to three young children and happily married. But then when I was little over a year old my mother suffered a miscarriage resulting in a hysterectomy, leaving both my parents heartbroken; especially mum. And that's where my younger sister Aishling fits in, they adopted her and it slowly helped heal the cracks created by the pain of their loss.
I had a very privileged childhood, all four of us did. With both our parents having high status and well paid jobs we didn't struggle. Living in a large house with two cars and attending the best schools in the area we had the most amazing opportunities in life. But that was irrelevant. The love shown to us by both mum and dad was more than enough. Mum juggled her job with home life and looking after four children. She'd spend hours with us teaching us all new things, helping us with homework and making memories that would last a life time. The same could be said for dad; he was hands on, fun to be around and the most amazing father you could wish for. Their relationship paved the way for all our futures in the most significant of ways.
Now I'm a father myself, to a baby daughter with the most amazing wife. I married young, unlike my parents. I became a Doctor although I wasn't pressured into it, my parents would have been proud with any career path I picked but it felt right. 'The Royal' still exists; I use the very same office my father once sat in. Times have changed though. I'm certain that in the near future 'The Royal' will sadly no longer have a place in our society.
