Dear LIsters,
A few weeks ago I heard that Tricia Anderson,
known to many of you as a wonderful midwife from
Bournemouth University, MIDIRS, The Practising
Midwife etc has a brain stem tumour, and has only a short time to live.
Tricia was in Australia for the ICM in July and
it was during her time here that she first began
to feel unwell. After some exploratory tests the
tumour was discovered and despite chemotherapy
and radiotherapy, there is little that can be
done. The news has come as a terrible shock to
those who knew her. She has written widely, was a
very popular speaker and workshop presenter, an
independently practising midwife, University
lecturer, Editor etc etc. She was a presenter at
the Birth International Conference in the UK last
April and I have worked with her before several
times. Her plight only came to my attention when
I approached her to join us at the next UK Conference.
The following message is being circulated and I
have posted it to the ozmidwifery so that the
message spreads across Australia. Tricia has many
friends here and they may want to
contribute. Our thoughts are very much with her during this terrible ordeal.
Regards
Andrea
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 January 2006 14:09
Subject: A Quilt for Tricia
Please DO NOT forward this email to either the
ARM / UK Midwifery list or the IMA list, as this
is meant to be a surprise, and doing so would spoil it!
Hello!
I hope you will forgive the opening of this
email, the reasons for which will become clear very soon!
As you may know, Tricia Anderson has a brain
stem tumour and is very in need of love and
happy energy from all of her friends at the
moment. She is going to be having a healing day
in mid-February, and, as we know that she has
many friends who would like to be with her in
spirit and let her know they are thinking of
her, we are inviting you to mail us a message
for Trisha which we will put into a special
album and / or join us in contributing to a quilt that we are making for her.
We are planning to put all the messages we
receive into photo albums, so it would be great
if you could write Trish a message (or draw a
picture or do whatever else you feel inspired to
do!) on one side of a postcard-sized (i.e. about
3 x 5 inches) piece of paper or card, and leave
the other side blank. If you would like to
send fabric for her quilt as well, it would be
great if you could attach a small piece of the
same fabric to the message side of the
postcard, or perhaps put a drawing or photo of
the fabric / square on the postcard, so that she
will be able to see who sent which piece of fabric.
If you would like to send fabric, we would
ideally like cotton or something of similar
weight, which will be easy to sew together with
all the other pieces. You are welcome to simply
send a piece of fabric, or to make an actual
quilt square and use embroidery / patchwork /
appliqué / anything else that takes your
fancy. The final quilt will have squares that
are 10cm x 10cm (mainly because we thought this
would be funny, as so many midwives will be
represented in the quilt!) so please make sure
that the fabric you send is at least 12cm by
12cm to allow for seams, and, if your square
contains any embroidery or other embellishment,
please make sure that the area that this covers
is no more than 10cm square and leave us a seam
allowance of at least a centimetre on each edge.
We need all messages / fabric / squares to be
with us as soon as possible, and by 15th
February at the latest. We realise this is a
short time-scale, but we also know that the kind
of busy folk who will want to be involved with
this are well able to pull out the stops when necessary!
Please send all fabric and messages to:
Jane Evans
90 Cravells Road
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 1BG
ENGLAND
(For info, it takes up to five days for a letter
to get to the UK from elsewhere in the EU, about
a week to get from the US to the UK, and a week
to ten days from anywhere else in the world, including Australia and NZ).
You are welcome to forward this to anybody else
you know who you think may like to participate,
as we would like this invitation circulated as
widely as possible. As above, please do not
forward this to the ARM / UK Midwifery or IMA
lists, as Trish reads those lists.
Thanks, love and best wishes,
Sara Wickham and Jane Evans
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