"to find a way to communicate with my autistic grandchild and hear him speak"

Cheshire, Orford, United Kingdom
female, age 109
married, 1 child
Speaks: English - my mother tongue, learning spanish and french, learning Romanian
Joined Oct 14, 2009

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I have a very dear passion which is close to my heart, and that is  we want to help sick young terminally ill children have a better quality in  their short lives,  support them and their families,  and granting them their` Wish Upon A Star`, this  idea all came about when my 19 year old son got cancer in the spine, ewing sarcoma, he fourght very bravely for 18 months, enduring the most horrendous courses of chemotherapy you can imagine,  in the end , his poor body could not take any more, and my precious son Gordon died on the 4th December 1989 aged 21 years and 2 weeks of age,, and so died a large part of my heart inside as well,    friends and family tell you,  it gets easier,  as time goes by to deal with your grief, but i can say personally that for me and my husband it gets harder to bear, till the day we die ourselves my son will always be missed in our lives on a daily basis, it was while my son was having a break from one of his chemo courses that he just said to us one day, that he would have loved to  have gone  abroad to a beautiful island with cystal clear oceans to swim in, enjoy some  beautifull sunshine, it was something he said that he had always wanted to do.     so we firstly made sure that we had his doctors permission, it was safe for my son to travel,   and we booked him and his best friend into a 5 star hotel on the island of Jamaca, my son swam with the dolphines (another one of his wishes), and went scuba diving, he had a wonderful two weeks holiday, sadley once he came home, he deteriated, and died two weeks later,   one of the few things he said he would never forget was,  us granting him his WISH,  and  since my sons death that is what we  try to do now,  help  and support young terminally ill children  and their distressed families  enjoy what time they have left together, and grant them their `Wish upon a Star`, we have fun raising money by making clothes, bedding, curtains, tablecloths/napkins, stuffed toys, anything that we think might sell at our bring and buy days at the hospital, and we generally sell everything, and every single penny goes into our fund for the children, and every penny is spent only on these wonderful children,  we also have very kind and wonderful people who give up their spare time and energy to help us take the children out to the seaside, or the funfair, or go on picnics when the weather is alot warmer, without these kind and wonderful people we could not carry on helping all the children we do help, so a great big thank you to all of our volenteers..well this is my page, with alittle bit about myself and one of my passions, peace to all..your friend Mary.