Dear Shannon,
from our Ella Grace (McFarlane) to you (and your Ella Grace), may your little girl be well-remembered. I found her searching for others sharing the two names and this touches my heart. Ours is a character... and yeah you can tell right away. I think most moms can. I'll try to raise my girl with some extra love, and I'll think of your girl often, as I have done since I first read her story on forevermissed. God Bless you Shannon and I'm sure your babe watches over in some capacity. Sounds like a heavy funeral. I like "Here Comes the Sun" which was played at a very very dear uncle of mine's funeral recently. He was no baby mind you, but he was taken young.
Anyway, I don't want to dredge up any pain, but I did want to share. Have for some time.
Much Love,
Ben, Melanie, Ella McFarlane
Things about Ella.
- When she was born she had the biggest blue eyes
-Weighed 2.3 kilos or 5 pound 5
-She had big feet for such a little baby
-She had lots of dark brown hair
-When she was well she had her daddys olive skin
-She used to clasp your finger really tight
-She loved her dummy and the doctors used to call her maggie simpson
-When i went out to express in the middle of the night she would be surround by nurses just playing with ella
- She smiled a few times and it wasnt gas!
-She knew mummy and daddys voices
-When she was well and extubated she used to throw tantrums and me and gav would sit with her for hours to calm her down
-She was very touchy and the slightest loud noise or touch would make her O2 Stats drop and her heart rate rise
-She hated getting x-rayed
- She was out of it on numerous drugs for the last 4 weeks of her life. and was paralized for 3 of them.
- She liked to lay with her arms above her head like mummy.
-She was a little version of her daddy
- She was definently going to be a character
- When she died she had only put on 200grams in the 7 weeks of her life
- She never got to drink milk and she was only substituted with nutrients
-There were days when she was so swollen she was un-recognisable
- A week before she died, when she opened her eyes for the first time in 3 weeks, Her eyes were dark brown, just like daddy
- She was baptised
- She was a fighter and lived alot longer then everyone expected.
-She is buried in the "avenue of rainbows" at Bunrong Cemetary, Melbourne, Aust.
- Songs played at her funeral were: Calling all angels (train), My heart will go on (celine dion), Tear in Heaven (eric clapton), Somewhere over a rainbow and when daddy and grandad carried her out to rest, billy joels Lullabye.
-Not a moment goes by when my head wont be flood with her memories