I know I have not been blogging much recently; things have been really difficult. Some of you who also follow my husband's blog will have seen his memorial posting about my sister Katy who died after a brave battle with her Brian Tumour. I wasn't able to post anything myself at the time. Things are now getting back to normal; not that I will ever forget Katy. I try to focus on remembering her when she was well, but I will always remember how many people she touched when she was in palliative care for the last few weeks of her life. Even though she had trouble communicating near the end, her smiles and facial expressions were precious to us and amazed the staff who have seen so many people go through the last stage of their lives. I really admire all the nurses, doctors, and staff who work with people with terminal illnesses. It must be so difficult to say goodbye to so many people. However, they also have the opportunity to get to know wonderful people like my sister, and to see how their efforts can extend and improve the lives of their patients. Especially Dr. Mason and Maureen at the Pencer Brain Tumour Centre who helped Katy over the many years of her illness. Medical technology really has come a long way, and changed a lot even over the past 10 years. Katy recovered from her third surgery so much faster than her first surgery almost 10 years ago and there are a lot more treatment options available now compared to when this started. Which shows that the funding going to research is really having an impact; hopefully one day a cure will be found. If you consider that this world has four basic dimensions (time + space), then it means that Katy will always exist between 1970 and 2006. And she filled that time with so much, more than others do in a whole lifetime. I miss her, Jen