Up The Farway Tree

Today is Frances Ann's 3rd anniversary. The CF trust have a webpage called Stars in the Sky set up in memory of people with CF, where each star represents someone who has lost their life and contains a message about that person. On a chosen special day, the star twinkles brightly in their memory, so if you go here today, you will see Frances Ann's star is twinkling and you can read our message.

(if you are reading this after Sunday, you can still click on the star. If you switch on the grid, her star is in C2).

On days like this, I have a little card that Frances Ann once sent me, which I bring out and read. She sent it to me after a long and difficult hospital admission, where I had taken some time off work to be at the hospital with her. I thought I would share part of the message on that card:

"The little blue fish on this card is like you, because you're not like all the other sisters in the world - you're a million, trillion, zillion, gazillion times more special! Thanks for being my supersis. Love you so much there's no word."

Those words make me feel sad for what I have lost, but they also make me smile because of what I have - memories that are free from regret and free from the feeling of words unsaid. I imagine in life that is pretty rare.