Posted 3:45pm
Rosie is sitting on the wall, with the white top This photo was almost four years ago exactly, on the canal between Kings Cross and Highbury, as we walked to Islington Museum for an afternoon visit.
Rosie was on our first ever course, and had changed her life around, but very sadly was taken from us on Monday 24th May by cancer. She was only 46, and this was a sad day for all of us. She had taken part in so many of our exercise sessions and walks, and had become a real friend of HMHB.
Here she is with me last December, at Highbury Corner, as we had finished an exercise session on Highbury Fields, and had come down to have a coffee and chat with others, and take some photos for our weekly health pack exercise pages (hence my shorts!!).
We all have our demons, and Rosie would be the first to say she had not dealt with them well in the past. But in the last four years she had overcome many problems, made a lot of friends, and we are all heartbroken at her being taken from us at quite a young age - she had not even reached 50.
This is one of the last photos of her, taken last Saturday 22nd, just two days before she passed. It was at the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead, and we were sitting in the garden, still having a laugh, not thinking at all of the illness, or the pain she was so clearly going through.
I just wanted to do a tribute. Working in health intervention, we are bound to come across tragedy, and it is something that will come to all of us. But we will miss our Rosie very much. She was a real character!!! Hugs and kisses and cuddles!!
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