Thank you Victoria,you are so right we are so right no one will ever understand our pain .Thank god for this wonderful site and we have all found one another xx
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Wee bit of good news today, my youngest son Euan has a heart scan and he doesnât have the same condition as his brother. Huge relief.
Also I have registered for the kiltwalk in Glasgow to raise money for CRY, congenital heart conditions in the young and in less than an hour Iâd also raised ÂŁ270.
I hope Scott would be happy and proud x
Anne xx
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Fantastic news Anne ⌠you must be so relieved and weâll done for raising so much money for such a great cause xxx
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Amazing! I have a young friend with two children who both have Tetra of Fallots. Itâs where 4 things in their hearts are in reverse. They have both had 4 or 5 ops. Michael the younger one 18, needs another stent and Sandra 20 needs open heart surgery again soon.
Well done with your fund raising!
When Lisa passed our elder daughter Jemma started a just giving page for the ECMO department at the ARI. She raised more than 11,600.
With love, Kate xxx
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Thats great news Anne and well done for the fundraising.
Love Deborah xx
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Dear Anne,
Am so pleased to hear your good news, such a relief for you 
a big well done for you registering to do the walk , Amazing! Scott wil be so proud of you and be proud of yourself 
thank you for sharing and have a good day.
Love Michelle xxxx
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Hi Anne,
I am sure Scott would be proud. He is all around you and as you say a huge relief about Euan
Love
Helen
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Thank you everyone for your lovely words of support, it means so much to me xxx
Anne xxx
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Great news for you Anne and well done on the fundraising. It all must have given you a little boost.
Love Chris x
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Hello everyone ,what beautiful weather we have been having .l must say it makes me feel so much better when I see the sun ,although I did say to John only today I wish Dawn could be here to enjoy it .l feel so guilty some days carrying on without her . It just seems now she has been gone forever.l know she would say for god sake mum just get on with it ,.Sarah ,would you believe has started a local online Bereavement Support group I told. her I would think about it,next thing we have a few people that has joined. , and I started. to panic , Sarah did tell them that we werenât councillors , but the do seem just to want to talk I must say I am proud of Sarah she seems very professional about it , and she is talking about her sister which will do her good .As she wouldnât ever talk about her to me . With love Maddy xxx
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Dear Maddie,
What a wonderful thing to do ! Absolutely brilliant you must be so proud of Sarah as Dawn will be she has done this not upstairs to help herself and others but also for you we all feel guilty thatâs normal, but it will help you as much as it will others in our situation you reaching out to them, let us know how it goes, thank you for sharing your positive news let us know how it goes, take care much love Michelle xxx
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Maddie and all. I have not been posting as my new phone meant I had to log in again and I couldnât remember my password.
Anyway, here I am.
Thatâs so good that Sarah has organised this. I am sure you will be a great help to bereaved parents. Only we know!
Today Jemma shut the door to her home for the past years. A beautiful flat in Portibello Edinburgh. She sold it in 3 hours a few weeks ago. However, she has been out bid 3 times on other properties. Another bid in this week but prices are going crazy. I felt so sad today that I couldnât be with her to hold her close. Itâs not just the end of an era but so many memories of having her sister to stay over the years. She was so upset but excited at the same time. I just wanted to be with her. This lockdown is going on so long for us in Scotland.
Love to you all dear friends.
Kate xxxx
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Thankyou Michelle, and welcome back Kate I did the same thing the other week ,I couldnât thin of my password so had to set it up again Iâm no wizz kid. Hope jemma gets settled ok itâs just another era of life passing us by ,all the lovely memories she had of LIsa,which she can never make again .But Lisa will always be in her heart Xx
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Hi everyone. I have had such a problem getting back here. I was thinking I would be asked to sign the official secrets act!xxx
I know itâs not easy I almost gave up ,thought I was going to wait for my granddaughter to come round , but then bingo I was on xx
Dear All,
Maddie you must be so proud of Sarah ⌠well done both of you! Iâm sure it will bring you even closer. It was lovely chatting to you today.
I find this this time of year difficult. We lost Gemma at the beginning of February during a very bleak, dark wintery week. So when I see the trees beginning to blossom and the daffodils starting to push their way through the earth, I always think âwhy didnât you just hang on a couple more weeks my darling? Then everything would have seemed a little brighterâ and more positive.
Tiffany, Louie and Stuart ( Bills son) have been lovely though and so glad to have them around.
As Lisa said, the lockdown has been going so long but I hope we are nearly at the end and can make plans.
Much love to you all xxx
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Dear Victoria and all. These past weeks with jemma .selling her flat and not having found anywhere else, life seems again to be in limbo. She is renting a cottage in the grounds of her work premises but just for a month.
So, I was thinking about Lisa and how sick she had become due to picking up a virus on holiday. It literally took the life and soul out of her and I knew she would never have been the same if she survived. She knew that too. I think she realised in the last two weeks of her life that she could never be the mother and partner she had been.
I know now that she would probably have needed full time care and possibly never have had a normal life again.
I know that would have broken her spirit.
As things have turned out , Brooke and Jamie have a lovely new house with a big garden (Lisaâs dying wish), Brooke is in a really good school in a perfect area. Itâs just how Lisa would have wanted it. Life is not as we might have planned but itâs how things are.
Love to all.xxx
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Dear Lisa and all, I know exactly how you feel. I have always tried to look on the bright side but lost that when I lost Gemma. But I sometimes reflect now on how we have coped and I do have much to be grateful for. It is so easy to lose sight of the good things that we have in our lives when we are lost in our grief.
Louie, Tiffany and Stuart are doing well in their careers and we have four beautiful grandchildren, with Coren having his own beautiful little house just around the corner from us in Woodstock. Gemma would be so proud of him and Charlie xxx
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Yes Victoria ,just a few years I kept boasting that we had a l lovely family 3beautiful grand children John and I were both well Dawn she was never well after that dreaded operation to reduce her weight ,but she copes we all had lovely holidays and life was good and then 2016 happened and well you all know the rest . I am so pleased Victoria you have your lovely grandchildren , but so sad for them that they have their lovely mum Gemma. . I hope you donât mind me saying that I donât want to upset anyone .Some days I do feel so depressed that Dawn couldnât carry children ,but in another way we donât see her husband anymore so perhaps is was a blessing . Maddie xx
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Tomorrow April 1st. Is a sad day my darling mum died that day and it was Motherâs Day and I cannot recall it being on that date ever since she passed 1984 ,. THe weather I can remember was awful in fact it was snowing , an. D we went to se e her the day before .BUt in the evening I said to my husband I need to go back to the hosipital but he said no we will go back tomorrow . My brother turned up at 8 next morning to say she had passed .But I knew something was saying I should of gone to say goodbye . that night xx
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