Fri 29 Dec
In early December, Juliet and I attended an Evening of Thanks at Great Ormond Street Hospital for those people that have set up Brighter Future Funds to raise money in the names of their lost loved ones.
It was a very well put together evening, a combination of inspiring words from GOSH staff, researchers and families to describe the challenges facing the children of GOSH and the work that is being done to save children's lives, along with some entertaining a Capella and a reading from Dickens by Juliet's new best friend, the actor Jason Isaacs, who spent a while chatting with us at the end of the evening.
It's made me realize that we, Juliet and I, as well as the family, friends and community that support us, have the power to not only to make a genuine difference to the quality of life of children in the care of GOSH but to save children's lives, both those in GOSH but also, through research, to save children's lives in hospitals elsewhere in the UK and, through the global community of scientists and medical professionals, around the world.
Doing so has got to be a way to create meaning after grief, to find a way not so much to say that we've beaten or got revenge on the world, but to make a better world despite what happened to Shani.
In early December, Juliet and I attended an Evening of Thanks at Great Ormond Street Hospital for those people that have set up Brighter Future Funds to raise money in the names of their lost loved ones.
It was a very well put together evening, a combination of inspiring words from GOSH staff, researchers and families to describe the challenges facing the children of GOSH and the work that is being done to save children's lives, along with some entertaining a Capella and a reading from Dickens by Juliet's new best friend, the actor Jason Isaacs, who spent a while chatting with us at the end of the evening.
It's made me realize that we, Juliet and I, as well as the family, friends and community that support us, have the power to not only to make a genuine difference to the quality of life of children in the care of GOSH but to save children's lives, both those in GOSH but also, through research, to save children's lives in hospitals elsewhere in the UK and, through the global community of scientists and medical professionals, around the world.
Doing so has got to be a way to create meaning after grief, to find a way not so much to say that we've beaten or got revenge on the world, but to make a better world despite what happened to Shani.
And between all of us we've already raised an incredible amount whether from wonderful friends dedicating celebrations and fundraising efforts to Shani's memory or from the immense Shine For Shani girls' London marathon walk.
Thank you to all of you.
As Counting Crows said, and Sheryl Sandberg showcased in Desert Island Discs as a memorial to hope, it's been a long December but there's reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than the last
... at least for some.
... at least for some.
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