That was the opening line of one cancer patient's heartbreaking obituary that she wrote herself - giving her the chance to thank loved ones from beyond the grave.Bailey Jean Matheson thanked her parents and boyfriend, and told friends she "cherished them more than anything" as an only child, considering them her brothers and sisters.
While it could have prolonged her life, she chose to spend the time she had left living, and making memories with her loved ones.Cape Breton PostIn it, she thanked her parents for supporting her decision to reject chemo, recognising how hard it was but calling it their "greatest gift" to her. Doctors originally thought that it might have been caused by muscle or back problems but after she felt a lump in the left side of her abdomen, she then went for further testing.
Her boyfriend Brett Andrew said: "She was worried that those two years — if she was going through chemo — her quality of life during that time wouldn’t be very good, so she just went for it and did a lot of stuff that she really wanted to do."One of her best friends, Julie Carrigan, told"Most people just go every day and take it for granted. And when you get diagnosed with something like that, there's no taking it for granted anymore.
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