Thursday, October 13, 2022
Many months after her diagnoses, I’m still in a state of shock over what’s happened. We miss you, Val - we love you. You’ve been in our hearts & thoughts every single day. Our hearts are broken for you.
Val was a brilliant, warm, kind, funny, lovely young woman & we feel so blessed to have spent these last number of years with her. She used to sit with my sister & I for hours just chatting, laughing, talking about her work & her life, about her grandparents & how much she loved them & the Philippines.
The last warm memory I have of her: just a few short months before her diagnoses, we had sat at our kitchen table talking & laughing, making jokes & hanging out. We ordered pizza. Talked about our favourite foods & I casually mentioned that a few years ago I had tried Turon - a filipino dessert - & loved it. The following week, she had gone out to dinner with her friends & brought home Turon for us, just because I’d casually mentioned liking it. She really was so sweet, so thoughtful, so wonderful. So gentle. She had the best smile. To know her was to love & care for her.
Our deepest condolences & heart felt love to the family. May God give her family the patience & strength to cope with this loss. I pray that one day, when life accommodates for & grows around the grief - they remember not only that she passed, but that she lived. May we meet again one day, Val. Somewhere where there is no sickness, no pain & no suffering. God-willing, this is not a goodbye, just a see you later. Love, Ursh & your home in Mississauga
