A mom who presumed her son was lifeless after he went lacking over a decade in the past has hailed a ‘Christmas miracle’ after discovering he’s alive and nicely.
Joyce Curtis believed that her believed lad Nicholas had died as she hadn’t seen or heard from him since 2010.
The very last thing she knew was that he was hitchhiking round France and Spain, however due to Covid, she thought Nicholas had caught the sickness and misplaced his life.
The heartbroken mom even ‘grieved for him.’ However on December 19 she acquired a telephone name letting her know her son was alive and in hospital within the south of France.
Joyce Curtis believed her son Nicholas had died as she hadn’t seen or heard from him since 2010. She is pictured at her house in Glasgow with a photograph of her son
However on December 19, simply days earlier than Christmas, she was advised her boy was nonetheless alive and residing in France. Pictured is her son Nicholas as a baby
‘I can not consider it,’ she mentioned. ‘I assumed with Covid and every part that has gone on, I assumed he was lifeless. I grieved for him.
‘After I received the decision to say he was alive I simply went into shock. All I did was cry all day.
‘This has simply made Christmas for me, particularly since my husband died again in June.
‘It is like that movie ‘Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue’. It is like a miracle.
‘I might resigned myself to the truth that he had died. I actually thought that and I feel all people thought the identical.’
Nicholas left his house city of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, within the mid 2000s to journey Europe after dropping his job as a joiner.
He advised his mum he had been hitchhiking and Joyce believes he spent a while residing tough on the streets of Paris.
She determined to report him as lacking in 2009 as he hadn’t heard from her son ‘for ages.’
A yr later, Joyce was contacted by the British Consulate in Paris to inform her that Nicholas had been admitted to hospital in France.
She then flew to go to him together with her husband – however that may be the final time she would see or hear from him in over a decade.
Joyce mentioned: ‘I received a letter in 2010 to say that Nicholas was in hospital in France.
‘He’d been lacking for some time by then.
‘I might already reported him lacking right here in Glasgow the earlier yr after not listening to from him in ages and ages.
‘Me and my husband went over to go to him and it was that good to see him.
Joyce, pictured at her house in Scotland, mentioned: ‘This has simply made Christmas for me…It is like that movie ‘Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue’. It is like a miracle.’
‘We had been getting him house, however for some purpose, I do not know why, he simply disappeared once more.
‘They had been sending him house and I used to be advised he was getting placed on a flight.
‘I used to be anticipating him house at Glasgow at a sure time. I labored on the Southern Common Hospital on the time. I used to be ready on him coming house and there was no signal.
‘After I was over visiting him in France I purchased him some footwear and stuff like that so he might have garments to journey house with.
‘I used to be ready in work. However he by no means received house. I bear in mind it was pouring of rain that day.
‘I phoned each airport to see if he’d gotten on a flight however nothing.
‘We by no means heard something once more. That was the final I heard from him till Monday.’
Joyce acquired the shock information that he was alive when the British Consulate contacted her to alert her that he had been admitted to a French hospital for a second time.
‘I spoke to him on the telephone. He appears wholesome. ‘I requested him, “Are you coming house Nikky?” And he mentioned, “Aye”.
‘I can not think about what he is been by way of. I simply must get him house.’
Nicholas is now planning to return house, however Joyce is eager to journey over to France to see him.
Joyce mentioned her son now plans on returning house for the primary time since he left the UK to go travelling within the mid 2000s. Joyce is pictured holding a photograph of her son as a boy
She mentioned: ‘I am not constructing my hopes up but till I get him house.
‘Hopefully although I’d even recover from to France with my daughter earlier than then so I can see him.’
The Overseas, Commonwealth & Improvement Workplace spokesperson mentioned: ‘We’re supporting a British man in France and are offering help to his household.
‘We’re involved with the native authorities.’
