Our fantastic DD3 has lost her battle.

[3girlies]

Our beautiful and brave DD3 lost her battle against a brain tumour on 2nd July.She was 6 years old. The end came very quickly, just 2 wks after we were told it had spread, though she had been ill for a few weeks, we were hoping it was just the chemo hitting her hard. So devastated, I am weeping all the time it seems, how can you help the other children cope when you can't do it yourself?
I am glad she died at home in our bed with me, my worst nightmare would have been a long slow decline in Birmingham Children's hospital, I am trying to comfort myself with this one thing. The grief seems unbearable otherwise.

3girlies how could I not post once I learnt of your sad situation? It's funny, I had always feared death, but now I don't. It will finally be my chance to see my beautiful Mia again. Yet, and this may sound silly, she does send me signs, to let me know she is still with us - and I hope that Flora will do the same for you. It happens to a lot of us - in very different ways, and it is something about which I would have been very sceptical, but not since I have had too many special experiences myself.

Sending love and strength 3girlies to you, dh and your 2 girls.

My heart is breaking at the thought of your loss.

So sorry for your loss 3girlies.

I am so sorry for your loss. Thinking of you and your loved ones.

So sorry to read of this, wishing you all strength and peace x

So very sorry to read of your loss. Death is always tragic but the death of a child knocks splinters off every mother's heart.

How terrible. I'm so sorry for the loss of your beautiful girl.

Lost for words at the awfulness you are having to live through. Wishing you all the strength and courage in the world.

So sorry for your loss.

Only just seen this - so very sorry to hear about your loss of Flora. :(
Cancer is a bastard illness, robs us of people before their time so so often.
Much love to you all xx

So so sorry for your loss :(

So, so sorry to hear of your terrible loss xx

I'm so sorry 3girlies
My thoughts are with you and your family, and of your little flora. This is just too cruel to understand
xxx

Sending my love to you and your family xx

Thinking of you always, 3girlies, and of Flora and all your family. xx

Thinking of you too expat and miasmummy.
Just collected Flora's ashes. Keeping them here for now. Going back to the funeral home has made me a bit shakey. Funeral was 4 wks ago today, just feels like years since she talked to me.

A huge hug for you my lovely Xx

I'm so very sorry for the loss of your lovely girl :(

xx

Oh, girlies. My heart goes out to you. Sending you lots of love and strength x

I totally understand. Aillidh made all these videos of herself on the iPad, I have to keep watching them to remember her little voice.

She was buried, we couldn't bring ourselves to cremate her, and we went to her burial lair yesterday. When I paid up I thought of the irony, the only piece of land I'll ever buy here is a burial lair for my daughter, with room for ourselves.

4 weeks since she died tomorrow.

It seems so unreal, doesn't it?

I think of Flora every day, and you all.

There's no right or wrong in anything you do with regards to this, 3girlies, just know that people are here for you.xx

Still thinking of you all xxxx

One day you will laugh again.

It doesn't feel like you will ever now.

I will think of you tonight and send you strength. But bereavement isn't about strength, it is simply the price of loving. And you need to embrace her loveliness, feel it's ok to hurt and feel so angry, as other people have/take for granted/moan about their own children.
And, at some piont, you will feel strength for other people going throuugh this, because you have. No-one else will be able to understand as you will.

In the meantime,

even as an atheist, I will send you a prayer. Don't 'be stong' for your other children, they need to see you weep and grieve. It will help them express their grief too.. She was a lovely, that is what you are all missing.

So sorry to hear about Flora, 3girlies, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

So sorry to hear your sad news. Thinking of you.