Heartfelt goodbye: Chef Wan’s mother, seen here in this photo during her birthday celebration last year, passed away peacefully in her sleep.
PETALING JAYA: Days after Chef Wan started posting a series of heartfelt posts about his beloved mum, Noraini Abdullah, the nonagenarian passed away at the age of 93.
His mother, better known as Cik Ani, breathed her last yesterday morning after being in a coma for more than a week.
Chef Wan, whose real name is Datuk Redzuawan Ismail, shared on Instagram: “With great sadness, my dearest mum passed away at 6.20am, peacefully in her sleep, at the Gleneagles Hospital. May her soul rest in peace.”
Cik Ani was hospitalised almost two weeks ago due to cancer and several other health complications.
Since the start of the new year, the celebrity chef has been updating his followers on Instagram about his mother’s health, where he described the anguish of seeing her in that condition.
In one of those posts, the 65-year-old celebrity chef wrote: “Waiting for your loved one’s soul to slip away, it’s the most painful feeling.
“As days go by, it’s even more difficult seeing my mum becoming so frail until all that’s left are skin and bones. I see this a lot in cancer patients towards the end.”
On Jan 4, he shared that he had made the funeral arrangements after discussing them with his family, and they had decided on Cyberjaya as her final resting place.
Yesterday, he said her body will be prepared for burial at Masjid Putra Putrajaya before being laid to rest at the Cyber 10 Muslim cemetery.
In previous posts, he stated that he had accepted the fact that his mother would be “leaving earth soon” because “there’s nothing more I or the medical team could do to reverse all this.”
Nonetheless, he said that he felt grateful to have had his mother in his life for so long.
He was also appreciative of the chance “to take her all over the world and have her under my care constantly”.
He added: “We both just need to be grateful to Allah for his blessing that indeed we both have had our fabulous moments too.
“By not regretting anything in the past ... I do feel it’s so much easier to come to terms about mum leaving all of us.
“At some point in our lives, we all must say farewell to one another anyway.”
