My youngest daughter drowned yesterday, and is currently in hospital in her first 24 hours in ICU. As I sit on my own, fielding messages and phone calls, I cannot help but be overwhelmed by it all. Not the situation itself, but all the ‘admin’ that comes with it. Fielding calls and responding to ‘how …
Apart from her EB, I’d always thought my little girl to be quite healthy. What! With a healthy appetite and a healing body, why would I think otherwise? Until I heard those five words, that is. I’ve always known I was anaemic, but to hear that my daughter may be too was a bitter pill …
Two months have passed by my dear one and I still think of you. I remember those first moments, having just found out that your dad and I were expecting another bundle and your sister another sibling. And though I didn’t ‘feel’ ready for another one, I knew that you were a gift from Allah …
Sunday 17 April 2016 A normal day for most of Cape Town, but for the residence of Manenberg it was a welcomed break from the shooting and gang violence which had filled its streets in the days before. The decision to go in was a tough one. Electronic articles and video footage of the ongoing …
