Please Read This

[Ric.ror]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2345050/Girl-15-kept-terminal-cancer-secret-lead-normal-life-died-just-days-completing-GCSEs.html

I have no words

[andy-hughes]

Heartbreaking - utterly heartbreaking.

I have three daughters, I cannot imagine how her parents feel.

[Bbbananas]

Bless her heart. And she looked beautiful in her prom dress.

[Mamyalynne]

What a special young lady , her legacy lives on.

[Octavius]

For a minute I thought even the parents didn't know.

[Kiki-frog]

///Her doctors even arranged late night chemotherapy sessions so Leah never missed classes at Great Yarmouth High School.///

What an extraordinary girl, and how very, very brave!

[excelsior-1]

that is such an emotional piece

oddly enough, what really made me well-up was the sentence about her funeral wish being carried out in the former of white horses drawing her carriage

[flump1]

Bless her little heart, what a loss. Her family must be so very proud of her. What spirit she had.

[gness]

What an amazing and brave girl.... x

[Ric.ror]

I thought it was worth posting as I cried and smiled at the same time

[jake-the-peg]

Yup - it happens

When I was at school one of the guys in my year had Leukemia - Not very good prognosis in the early 80s

I believe he died a few years later on

I guess the thing is when you're terminally ill but you're still pretty much fully functional you just have to put it to the back of your mind and push on.

It's that or waste the last of your life feeling sorry for yourself and going to pieces in a duvet

[emmie]

what a terribly sad story, and they say there is a God.

[emmie]

most people i have known who were terminally ill, including the o/h weren't fully functional, the pain and distress for him and for me was monstrous. Same for others in that position, some get inadequate pain relief and some go down very quickly,sad way to end one's life.