My thoughts are with you and Vals family. This is a particularly difficult time of yea to lose a loved one, but I’m sure that if her family are anything like her,they will find the courage and strength to cope.
You obviously had a very special friendship, you were lucky to have each other.It will of course be very hard for you, but try to hold on to the good memories and let the warmth and love of your frienship help you through your sadness. Val is at peace now, she wouldn’t want to see you suffer too much for too long, remember her, you’ll always have part of her with you.
With love Julie xx
thisiscrap…
Have only just caught this thread.
I am so very sorry to hear your fried lost her fight against this s**te disease, what a very wonderful friend you have been to her, my sincere condolencies to you and her family xxx
Karen x
I’m so very sorry…xx
Me too xxx
I can only reiterate what everyone else has said…
Your friendship will leave a huge hole in your life. Be gentle with yourself now, it really does take time…
Condolences to your wonderful friend’s family and loved ones.
Welsh girl xx
So sorry. Friendships are very precious things and I hope you have someone to lean on now too.
Condolences to her family.
Jan xx
Was moved to tears by your posts. So sorry.
x
So sad. You are a good friend, I am sure she appreciated it. Dx
So sorry to hear your sad news. xx
Evening all
You lot amaze me! I typed a post on here the other night when I’d had too many sherberts (“healing” ones!) and was so pickled I didn’t manage to submit it! I was so literally drowning my sorrows.
I think I was trying to say that I never actually knew her pre cancer. She got her first diagnosis 10 years ago just as her son met our daughter. They went on to have two amazing children (now 8 and 6)so Val and I always said that we “shared” grandchildren. Even though our kids split up we decided that there was nothing a bottle of wine and humour wouldn’t cure so we became a huge extended family. We laughed at most things. She said that she would want “Bat out of hell” played at her funeral and I told her “You are a bat and you’re going to hell”!
So I remember her with love and humour. She wouldn’t want it any other way. She was very, very special and I was so very lucky to have had her in my life.
Huge love to all you special people
Lins xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
One special lady!!!
Mal x
Lins, thank you for being such a good friend and for sharing your experience. Deepest condolences to you and to Val’s family.
Lins,
Thank you for such a wonderful insight into you and Vals fun relationship, that was so funny about the wig and the ‘out of body experience’. I’m just about to start a chemo which will mean I will loose my hair for the 3rd time and was feeling really p@@@d off about it but reading about how you and Val turned it around into something to laugh about made me realise I too have a friend like you and I will cope with it through humour too. So thank you very much for that.
Keep on posting, Lins, whatever your state of sobriety!
Linda