ONE MORE DAY

I read my friend Kyrenzas blog with much interest and some amazement tonight because what she wrote about was what I had been thinking about the last couple of days. I follow anything British, TV, celebrities, the Royal Family, comics....anything really. So I tend to know a lot of what is going on over there. Over the last few years there has been a young woman who has outraged some, offended others, entertained many and made a lot of very public mistakes to her own detriment. Jade Goody is her name and wether you love her or hate her she has had to face what no 27 year old should have to. Terminal cancer.I have followed her story with interest and curiosity at first, and as her cancer has progressed my interest has turned to compassion and sadness. Her journey has been filmed because she wants to leave enough money to provide for her two little boys, but it is so very personal and confronting to watch a yong person fade away from an illness that is so cruel. And in many pictures I have looked at there are the very sad eyes of her little ones staring back at me. She has been a loudmouth, abrasive, rude and offensive in the past BUT she is 27. Maybe she hasn't been a good example to the TV audience, and maybe she has made some horrendous choices and opened her mouth when she should have kept it shut, but I am a lot more offended by Paris Hilton, she has had all the advantages in life Jade Goody never had and still turned out a useless piece of fluff who brings nothing to the world (especially class).I guess what I am trying to put into words is that as I sat imagining what it must be like to be in your twenties and beg for one more day, to watch your babies play, to see your mum, to kiss the man you love, just one more day of a very young life.......it just struck me how sad this is.I watched a small piece of footage from the show that is being made about her struggle with cancer on U tube tonight and it made me cry. Maybe you don't like her, maybe you are just not interested but the horror and reality of this show may save your daughter's life. If one girl watches this and then goes along for her cancer smear then Jade Goody has done more in 27 years than I have in 52. I wish her calmness and I hope she is surrounded by love in her final days, she is much too young to have this happen to her in my opinion.This link to U Tube is a preview of the upcoming show that has followed her battle with cancer and it so very sad but maybe it will drive the message home to our girls, DON'T IGNORE YOUR HEALTH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krpFoZN8nSs