Our family consists of a grieving mummy, grieving
grandparents, grieving uncles, grieving auntie & grieving cousins.
We are no
different to any other bereaved family.
We all
grieve in different ways and at different times, sometimes we try to talk to
each and say how we are feeling, but the painful reality is our family will
always have one person missing.
Each year,
at the end of September, begins a difficult process for us as this was the time
we found out about Charlie's condition. October and November consisted of
hospital visits, research and trying to be positive.
We are human
and at times we all feel sad. There are the ‘what if's’ and ‘we wish things
could have been different’. We cry, we get depressed, but there's no shame in
feeling all of these things and asking for help if we need it.
This year
will be Charlie's 6th birthday, every year on the 29th December we all get
together. We try to do something that Charlie would have wanted to do, we talk
about what he would be doing now, and what he would look like, this is
Charlie’s day and the only day we take off from the daily running of the
charity.
Charlie will
always live on, his legacy we have created in his name has helped so many and
will continue to do so for many years to come. For such a little boy he has
made an enormous impact on the world.
