Ex-nurse\u00a0Myfanwy Lewis has spent a lifetime looking after others but was on the receiving end of some love, care and attention when she turned 100.<\/p>\n
Myfanwy, from Rhiwbina, Cardiff, celebrated with friends at the Gabalfa Day Centre, which she has visited three times a week for the past six years.<\/p>\n
As well as a celebration with her family, the staff at the centre \u2013 where Myfanwy enjoys bingo and quizzes \u2013 had organised a buffet and flowers for her.<\/p>\n
Myfanwy was born in Willesden Green, London, but moved to Welshpool in Powys when she was seven.<\/p>\n
She later came to Cardiff when she began training and working as a psychiatric nurse at Whitchurch Hospital. During World War II, she played a vital role serving her country after psychiatric patients were moved out and injured servicemen from the Battle of Dunkirk were treated there.<\/p>\n
But fun-loving Myfanwy said they still managed to have a good time, despite the ongoing war effort. She said: \u201cSome of them were upset and distressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut some of them were quite funny \u2013 and well enough to go to the Hollybush pub. \u201cWe looked after them and used to take them over the Hollybush for a drink.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the war, Myfanwy was wed to husband Roy and they set up home on College Road, Whitchurch. Myfanwy briefly gave up nursing after having two sons, David, 64, and Richard, 61.<\/p>\n
But in 1957 the family moved to Llanishen and Myfanwy resumed her career, becoming a private night nurse in Cyncoed.<\/p>\n
Later, she worked as a sales assistant in Howells department store until she retired. In 1997, Roy passed away and Myfanwy now lives with son David in Rhiwbina.<\/p>\n
She says turning 100 \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel any different\u201d. \u201cI very much enjoyed the celebration they put on for me at the day centre,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut turning 100 doesn\u2019t feel any different. I don\u2019t feel any different at all.\u201d<\/p>\n