R.I.P Sophia Lara Curtis
Good evening everyone,
Tonight, I am not going to give you an update regarding Chiane. I want to talk about a friend that Chiane made whilst in hospital at Great Ormond Street.
Sophia…
I will never forget the first time that I met Sophia in hospital. I can only describe her as an “English Rose in the making with the humble smile of Diana”. She had the most beautiful red hair, and her eyes were filled with intelligence and love.
We got to know Sophia’s parents, Rob and Christina, and quickly became friends with them. It’s very difficult to explain it, but when your child is diagnosed with something like cancer, your whole world stop. You are torn away from the life as you know it and you are almost like a fish in a fish tank. Life around you continue… But you yourself, are in this bubble, in this fish tank, in a completely different world, that the outside world has no clue about. The only people that truly understand you, are those who are also in your situation or position. As parents, we use to meet up in the kitchen after our kids were sleeping, a “quick coffee” or a “quick dinner” and in those 10 minutes at 1 am in the morning we don’t say a lot or we do say many things. Our eyes and faces spoke a million words. You could see as soon as a parent walked in, if it was a “good day” or a “bad day”. We become like a family, we support each other, we listen to each other, we off load and vent now again, we motivate each other, we share information and knowledge… And sometimes crossing paths in the corridor during the day, a glance could say a book and we understood each other without exchanging a word… “Just keep going….”That is how we got to know Rob and Christina…we all would get excited for one another when out children’s platelets or white blood cells were above a certain level, or the stool colour changed etc. The small things excited us.Then comes the end of treatment, the phase of excitement until you are home for a little while and you catch yourself thinking…”what if my child relapse”. That is a feeling that haunts you, constantly…
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