ANGELA Wright lived life to the full before falling ill and losing the ability to control her body more than 15 years ago.
Her two sons Mark and Stephen Wright speak with pride of the way their mum never lost her love for life or became disheartened at her disability.
Read more: 'We want justice' for abandoned mumThey claimed she never gave up her fight to get the care she knew she was entitled to.
She grew up in the Paddy's Market area of Glasgow with her two sisters and three brothers, met and married the father of her two children, who was in the army, moved between bases with him - including spending two years in Germany and time in Aldershot.
She worked as a nurse in the Territorial Army until her illness robbed her of her ability to move any part of her body, other than her head.
Angela moved to Sheffield eight years ago to be closer to her sister, who cared for her for the first year after the council's care was stopped, until she moved back to Scotland.
Angela's 18-year-old son Stephen visited once a week during the second year that his mum was left to fend for herself, and she was helped two other days a week by a cleaner.
In the last year of her life, she was cared for by both her sons on a daily basis, with Stephen moving in to her home to look after her.
They said they remember their mum before the care stopped going on trips to Meadowhall, the cinema, pubs and bowling.
Angela also liked to keep in touch with family and friends and was always the first to get the most up-to-date mobile phones, which she sent texts on by holding a chopstick in her mouth to press down on the keys.
She also used this method to do all her banking from home.
Her son Mark, who moved from Bridlington to live closer to his mum, said: "Considering she only had the use of her head she was amazing - she loved living life to the full and would have continued doing that if the care hadn't stopped.
"I remember us going round Meadowhall with her in her wheelchair, which she controlled with her chin, and she just used to laugh at the idiots who used to stare at her - she didn't let it faze her at all, she just got on with life they best way she could.
"I think she developed her condition about 16 years ago because my earlier memories of her are from when I was about four years old and she was in a wheelchair then, so it is all I have ever known."
Stephen said one of his favourite memories of his mum is her playing football with him as a youngster in the park while she was in her wheelchair - refusing to miss out on fun times with her children.
Mark said: "My brother recently turned 18, and if mum had still been here and had carers, she would have liked nothing else than going to the pub with us to celebrate - she never gave up on life."
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