“All the things we fuss and fret and fume about are of no consequence when a loved one is fighting for life.”
How sad that a happy ski-ing holiday should end in tragedy for Michael Schumacher and his family.
This man who has shown such skill and bravery in his racing career now faces the biggest challenge of his life in a Grenoble Hospital.
His wife Corinna is at his bedside with their two children Gina-Marie, 16, and 14-year-old Mick.
They are surrounding him with lucky charms, candles and their love, hoping and praying that he’ll recover, that they’ll get back the man at the centre of their lives.
Sadly, throughout the country today there are countless families keeping a vigil at the bedside of loved ones.
Whether it’s an expected ending of a life or a sudden illness or accident, the shock and pain for those who watch and wait is the same.
Nothing else matters.
All the things we fuss and fret and fume about are of no consequence when a loved one is fighting for life.
We feel lost and helpless and would give everything to change things, make them better, say the words we never got around to saying. All that’s left is a fragile hope that we cling to desperately.
So today take a moment to think of that family in a Swiss hospital and all families who sit by the bedside of a loved one, willing them to recover, to have one more chance of that most precious thing time together.
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