my aunt

my aunt Robyn died yesterday at 6-30 am on Sunday 19th June 2011 after a long battle with cancer. I am glad she waited till then as my 40th birthday was on the 18th. My girls are very upset and my mother is too.

What is Death?
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference in your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without affect,
without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.

All is well.
~ Henry Scott Holland

The three-year-old girl left paralysed after suffering massive stroke while lying on the sofa

A three-year-girl has been left paralysed from the shoulders down after suffering a stroke.

Mikka Davies, who had been a healthy toddler, suddenly lost the use of her limbs while lying on the sofa at home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Her mother Rachel, 26, took Mikka to the local hospital and she was quickly transferred to Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

After four weeks of extensive tests the family were told that Mikka had suffered a massive stroke. They said they were mystified as to what caused the brain injury.

Mikka, who is now back at home, has regained slight movement in her right arm and left thumb, but is otherwise paralysed and has to wear a body harness to help support her.

Ms Davies said: ‘She had been crying but I ignored her at first because I thought she just wanted attention.

‘She asked for a biscuit but she just couldn’t take it from me. It was so strange.

‘My first thought was, “has she had a stroke?”, but then I thought about that TV advert which shows the warning signs of strokes.

‘It talks about one side of the body, but this wasn’t, it was both sides.’

She added: ‘It’s so tragic, she is only a little girl and you just don’t think anyone so young would suffer a stroke. It’s something you associate with older people.

‘Although I feared she might have had a stroke, another part of me was thinking , it can’t be that, she is only a child and when the hospital confirmed it we were shattered.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1351318/Three-year-old-girl-paralysed-suffering-shock-stroke-sofa.html#ixzz1CTXJqCmP

 

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Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life.

I hope to get healthier. Then I would be able to walk further and lose weight and feel better in myself. hopefully that will happen! I wish that there was a stroke support group around here though.

Day 01 -> Something you hate about yourself.

What I hate the most is that I had 2 strokes.

It changed my whole life and I don’t like the new me – I sux now!

Before the strokes I could do anything – mow the lawn, move furniture, play ball, run around with my kids, just walk further then 1 block and lots of stuff.

Now since the strokes (Dec 2008 and March 2009) I can’t do lots of stuff – my maths is gone, get really tired, put on weight, can’t walk far – maybe a block. There is more but it is too depressing!