Charlie... you used the word "frailty" in respect to Alison (youngest). It is hard as a Mum to comprehend that one child is not robust...is indeed frail. I am so afraid for her at tmes I don't know how to express this fear.

Yet because of her illness she has develloped a funny sort of black humour and a way of looking at the world which is beyond her years...

we all look sweet and innocent... and we are when it suits us...and often it does not suit us to be sweet and innocent...and I am so bloody pleased that the girls are alive, awake and aware/