Melanie Reid on Christmas
I always read her column in The Times Saturday magazine as I find her struggles inspiring. I suspect too, that I am not alone in taking courage from this brave woman, who is fighting back from something a lot worse than I have suffered.
I like the last bit of her piece yesterday.
The new year will bring my countdown to eventual discharge, so I must concentrate as hard as I can right now on myself. My wonderful support group of Times readers will understand, I’m sure, and be there for me in January. I wish you all a very happy Christmas and please, if you are swithering over whether to buy a mohair nose-warmer or rose-petal-stuffed underpants for the person who already has everything, then donate the money instead to The Times Spinal Charities Appeal. For if I’ve learnt one thing this year it is this: what matters this Christmas is love and health, not useless material stuff, nor whether your table decorations are fashionable.
In some ways Scrooge had Christmas right, but for the wrong reasons.
The Anonymous Widower 