Mummy will always watch over you...
Writing letters for the years to come, mother with brain tumour who will not live to see her daughter grow up
AFTER being given as little as 18 months to live with brain cancer, Sophie George dreaded the thought of her daughter growing up without a mother.
So in a heart-wrenching effort to remain at her child’s side even after death, she has written a series of letters to guide one-year-old Marcie through life.
Miss George, 27, began composing the emotional notes after learning her cancer could not be cured.
They will be handed over at milestones in Marcie’s life, such as her wedding day and on each birthday, by her father, Miss George’s fiance Jay Godfrey.
‘I’m telling her that I’ll always be watching over her,’ she said. ‘They will be for those times when she needs her Mum and so that she has got something of me to keep my memory alive.’
In one letter for when Marcie starts school, Miss George writes: ‘Today is your first day of big school and even though Mummy isn’t there to hold your hand or kiss you goodbye as you go in to your class, I will be watching over you and keeping you safe.’
She tells Marcie there is a tissue sprayed with her scent ‘to remind you of Mummy’ and that ‘Mummy will always love you very much’.
Miss George, who was diagnosed with a stage four brain tumour in
Touching: The letter for Marcie’s first day at school February, said: ‘It scares me every brain. ‘I remember thinking it day that I won’t be with her. would be fine,’ she said. ‘I thought
‘I’m only in my twenties and you they’d remove it and it would be don’t ever think you’ll be facing okay. I never thought for one something like this. It makes you minute it would be what it was.’ cherish the little things and be Despite a six-hour operation, grateful for every moment.’ doctors concluded the tumour
Doctors initially dismissed her was incurable and told her she concerns when she began suffering may have as little as 18 months to crippling headaches this year, live. She said: ‘It was heart-breaking. before an MRI scan revealed a I wouldn’t see my little baby near two-inch tumour on her grow up. She’d just turned one and a half and I was thinking that I will never see her go to school.’
Miss George and Mr Godfrey, a 28-year- old builder, who live in Clacton, Essex, have organised a series of trips with Marcie while her mother has treatment to stave off the growth of the tumour.
She said: ‘ They’ve told me towards the end I may start to lose my memory and that scares me, that my daughter will see me like that and that maybe I won’t remember who she is. I’m trying to be as positive as I can and taking each day as it comes.’
Miss George is due to marry Mr Godfrey next month and said she takes comfort knowing he will care for Marcie. ‘Jay has been my rock,’ she said. ‘Seeing the way he looks at Marcie with so much love, it makes me feel warm inside as I know she will always be looked after.’