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Today was a day that will long live in my memory. I met Monique @thelifeofmique at Colchester Hospital. Monique’s mum had made contact last week and between us we arranged today’s visit, which Monique was completely unaware about. It’s about a two hour drive from work near Henley to Colchester, so I left at lunchtime and was quite late home tonight especially as the A12 was closed due to an accident on the way back, but so absolutely worth it x When I entered her room Monique had to do a double take. We spent over two hours chatting, and Monique, her boyfriend and her folks made me feel incredibly welcome. What she has been through and continues to go through is more than most will experience in a lifetime, and yet she remains the most lovely, inspirational, warm and kind person you could ever wish to meet and become friends with. I think Monique’s post on Instagram after I had left sums in up way better than I ever could…
“This afternoon something simply magical happened. I had the pleasure and honour of meeting @timbodarv in person after he made the journey from Reading to come and surprise me with, of course, more of the absolutely amazing bears he has created in order to help raise funds for my GoFundMe. My parents helped plan today and made this moment happen alongside Tim, though I didn’t have a clue until he walked into my room! Even then it felt very surreal and I couldn’t place Tim at first purely as I never expected to meet him so soon, let alone for him to make the trip here to the hospital. To actually meet and be able to thank someone in person who continues to have such a positive impact on my journey is overwhelming and I am once again lost for words at the positivity he has brought to my life. Tim, I am still so blown away by your generosity and pure humbleness. You are so very genuine and down to earth and such a lovely person to chat with and I truly do feel honoured to have held that space with you today. Your dedication to charitable causes is paramount to changing lives all over the world. Please, if you haven’t already, go and give him a follow and check out his website ‘Rivers2Cross’, alongside @bowelbear . He deserves all the support and awareness he can get to continue helping to change lives for the better. What an amazing human you are @timbodarv and someone I’m very proud to call a friend ❤”
The teddy bears continue to make a vital contribution to Monique’s Go Fund Me page. Monique still needs our support and every penny raised really does make a big difference. The amount raised went past £700 this morning and that has been donated to the fundraising page. Tonight sales have gone up a notch once again so I will be giving an updated figure on that over the weekend. If you have ordered a teddy today please bear with me as I have had to re-order bears twice this week to try and keep up with the demand, and it is quite a time consuming operation with each bear from start to finish, but hugely rewarding and enjoyable at the same time. Please keep the support coming x
Before all the excitement of meeting Monique I was at Wimbledon Common this morning for work which was very picturesque. Not a Womble in sight unfortunately and no time this time to visit the tennis 😊
What else can I add about today, but just what a really uplifting day it was… Until tomorrrow x
