Goodbye My Friend

This morning I received the news that an old and dear friend  passed away last night, after a battle with  cancer. Even though I have known she was not expected to live much longer, it has still been a shock and came too soon.

 All these months she has never given up hope of beating this terrible disease, but unfortunately she was unable to. She died on her 67th birthday, which makes it doubly sad, but her family were with her and she would have really loved that. I hope that even though she was unable to talk, she did know and died peacefully knowing they were there.

She was a good mother, and her family were her reason for living, she loved her children and missed them when they weren't there.  

Lin has been a friend to me for many years and was a wonderful support for me during the troubled times of my divorce all that time ago. Even though her own life has  not been  smooth sailing, she never lost her sense of humour, and many a laugh we have had over the years when reminiscing.

Lin always had a smile, and my memories of her feature lots of fun, and although I moved away we  kept in touch.   The photo was taken a long time ago, and is the only one I have.  We were at a fund raising function for our local Surf Girl. 

I have been wanting to go and see her for weeks, thinking I had time, but unfortunately time ran out.    Which says Never put these things off or it will be too late.

I know that she will be missed by her family.   Goodbye girl I will miss you too, and miss those happy  phone calls.