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I Miss My Granddad by Petreece - 23 / 6 / 2010
My granddad died a week ago and I really miss him because I never got to see him before he died and I feel like I have betrayed him for not going to see him. The way I cope with it is punching walls, screaming at people and being rude to teachers - making myself get sent to the ...
I Miss You Nanny x by Tiffani - 20 / 6 / 2010
Every year my nan would go to America to visit her sister and brother-in-law. 2008 was just the same until we got the phone call to say my nan had fallen ill and they think it's cancer. Hearing those words crushed me inside. I didn’t know if my nan would pull through. I prayed ...
I Miss You, Gran and Grandad by Caitlin - 2 / 6 / 2010
On the fourth of February 2010, my gran sadly passed away. She had been frail for quite a long time but I never expected this to happen. I felt like no one could understand how i felt, my world had collapsed. The only reason I stayed strong was for my grandad's sake. They had ...
Great Nanny Sweet <3 by Amber - 19 / 2 / 2010
Nanny Sweet was my world. She died when I was only 4. Me and my mother went to her house. We walked inside and my mother went to go see where Nanny Sweet was... Next I heard a scream. I rushed to the room but my mum wouldn't let me in. I knew something was wrong. She was sobbing ...
Mum by Amanda - 19 / 2 / 2010
My mum died on Friday, 13 February 2009 at 11.45a.m. Me, dad and my auntie Hilda, Mum's sister, were with her. Mum had been diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2008. Mum was so brave and positive. She looked fantastic, even during the chemotherapy. In July 2008 she hurt her ...
R.I.P. Brother x x by Ayse - 19 / 2 / 2010
My brother died on Tuesday, 10th November 2009. He was in hospital because he was in a car crash. He was perfectly fine when he got out of the car but when he got into hospital he wasn't moving because the hospital gave him special tablets to make him go into a deep sleep and he ...
Mum, Don't Go by Ruth - 19 / 2 / 2010
My mum wasn't young, but she wasn't old. She picked me up when I fell, gave me guidance when I was lost. She was the sun and the rain that helped me grow. I was 12 when she got pancreas and liver cancer. We had her a year. It was only weeks since I had turned 13 and was so near ...
www.kids.widow.ie by Lauren - 19 / 2 / 2010
I would like to tell you about a new website that has just gone online. Its called www.kids.widow.ie/forum. It’s for young people who have lost someone close to them and are finding it hard to talk to adults...
R.I.P NANNY IRIS by Vikkii - 10 / 5 / 2009
my nan was always this bright happy person and her and my grandad were always going away on holiday...until one holiday when my nan fell ill.She then got diagnosed with Cancer of the liver and bowel in September.My whole world absolutley fell apart around me when my mum told me. ...
My Sister Millie-Jo by Bethanie - 25 / 3 / 2009
On the 1st febuary 2006, my world crumbled, My bright beautiful little sister Millie-Jo tragically died in a freak accident which invloved her becoming trapped down the side of her bed and suffocating, She was 21 months old...
Calum by Lauren - 19 / 3 / 2009
I lost my best friend and boyfriend, Calum, on the 30th of November, 2008. He had a kidney problem and needed an operation but nobody knew that there was something wrong with his brain... so when he had to take all the drugs for the operation, his brain had a chemical imbalance ...
grandad (L) by Shannon - 11 / 3 / 2009
my grandad died end of october last year, previous to that i had lost my other grandad in april 2007. Im finding things really hard at the moment, and ive been letting my feelings out in all different ways, such as puncing walls, screaming at family and friends etc. My grandad ...
Popop by Leah - 25 / 1 / 2009
I don't understand why my grandad died. He was perfectly fine and he wasn't even poorly or anything. He just had a heart attack. It happened about six years ago but sometimes at night I suddenly start crying about him thinking "Why did he have to die? It isn't fair." All I want ...
Why is this happening? by Hannah - 29 / 11 / 2008
I have been feeling really low for a while now. I have no one in my family to talk to anymore. My granddad was the only one and he is not here. I feel lonely and upset most of the time. I am finding school hard. I just don't know what to do anymore. I wish my granddad was still ...
Granddad by Hannah - 28 / 11 / 2008
My granddad has been dead for over a year now. I miss him. He was really special to me because we shared the same birthday. He was the only one in the family who I could talk to about how I was feeling and now I have lost that.
