Hi everyone
Quite a while since I last posted -life has been a bit hectic. My best friend of over 21 years has been battling breast cancer at various stages over the last 16 years and earlier this month she finally lost her fight, at the far too young age of 46.
Although I had known for some time that we were not going to grow old together, the end came quite unexpectedly and I have found that I was not as well prepared as I thought I was.
So what has this to do with the header of HUGS??? On Christmas Eve
2004, I was blown away to receive a HUG quilt from this group. It wasn't general knowledge at the time but I was struggling to come to terms with the effects of living with Multiple Sclerosis. The night I came home from the hospital after Becky died, I got my HUG quilt and wrapped myself in it. The weather here was just beginning to turn colder so I now have the quilt on my bed each night -and often take it downstairs in the evening as it grows colder.Becky was one of the few people I was able to show the quilt to when I first received it - I was somewhat neurotic in those days about folk knowing I had MS. I have spent much of the last 18 months making quilts for her two very young grand-daughters and she was able to give them to them in August.
SO yet again, I am SOOOOOOO grateful for my HUG quilt. I sit and read the names and messages and hope and pray that each person who was kind enough to send me this act of kindness will experience -at least once in their life -the kind of friendship that I had with my friend.
Annie, England