The Dearly Departed
Whitney was having one of the most traumatic Christmases that involved the death of a loved on. “My grandma, my mum’s mum, died on Christmas Eve. She had been getting steadily worse so my parents and I were taking turns sitting with her at the hospital. I think she was trying to hang on to have another Christmas with us but by Christmas Eve, she was going downhill and she died soon after.
“I am an only child and my dad lost his parents too, so we were all really, really close to my grandma. We didn’t really celebrate Christmas that year because we were really depressed but now we make Christmas a celebration of her life.” Now, Whitney’s family will always have a reason to celebrate the holidays.