Post by Dave on May 10, 2011 17:59:58 GMT
The image of my dear Carol's heart stop beating right before my eyes, is one that will hurt me deeply for the rest of the years I have left trying to live without her. That heart belonged to a very special and beautiful lady both outside and in, a lady who always put others before herself and a lady who just had so much love to give to everyone.
I was so lucky to have spent the most happiest nineteen years of my life having her in it, her love was true, meaningful and a love that would never die. She was such a rare lady, she never complained, moaned or anything, she woke up happy everyday and stayed that way the whole day long.
Nine and a half years ago she took it on the chin when she learned she had a very rare type of breast cancer. She was happy to have bits of her body sliced off here there and everywhere. Happy to have nasty drugs pumped into her and happy to swallow enough pills to make her rattle when she walked.
WHY? because she wanted to live to grow old and not die, she loved living and even when in such pain, still smiled, still never complained and not once during her illness said why me.
Its one of the reasons I loved her so much, its the reason I have so much respect for her, why I know there could only ever be one Carol.
For nine years she refused to let that cancer stop her from doing one single thing she wanted to do and I felt honored and proud to hold her hand and do all I could to help her fight and stay alive.
Sadly six months ago the cancer stepped up its game and started to win and yet she still refused to lay down and die and still fought as hard as she could, even when I knew myself her life was soon going to end.
I don't know how she walked all those miles with me during the second week of October 2010, maybe she knew there were never going to be anymore Carol and Dave walks together.
Just a few weeks later she went from nine and a half stone in weight to well under six stone. I would joke with her she was my skeleton covered in skin,but I will tell you what, I loved that skeleton because it was still my Carol who still somehow managed to smile.
A month before she passed away, she shocked everyone by turning up for work at Jack Sears nursing home, I still don't know how she even got up off the bed that day, let alone get to town and then work for the whole day. Did she just want one more day at work doing what was so very dear to her heart caring for others?
Yes, it is so wrong that dear Carol had her life cut so short, so wrong she had to suffer so much pain as she did and that is why I can't and won't let the fact her heart did stop beating, be all for nothing. That is why there is going to be THE WALK FOR CAROL.
A walk to honour her and raise as much as possible for cancer research in the hope that one day ladies like Carol won't have to die the way she did.
I would love as many people as possible to do THE WALK FOR CAROL, I hope others will want to just help raise as much money as possible in her name.
All the details of the walk are below and I have also put up the forms for all to see that can be obtained by sending a PM to lou or emailing her at saffishaw1@hotmail.co.uk
these forms can then just be printed by yourself and used, if you do not have a printer then Lou will post you the forms.
You can also just give a donation on our just giving website.
www.justgiving.com/walkforcarol
Details of the walk will also soon be available on the Torquay United Official website.
Sunday 10th July from Bideford Station to Fremington Quay starting at 10.30am
Carol Ann Roach was a beautiful, kind, loving, caring, generous person who always put others before herself. Nine and a half years ago she learned she had breast cancer and battled so hard and bravely to beat it. During her illness she underwent five operations, had chemotherapy three times and radiotherapy once. So often in constant pain she made it so easy for others to be around her and everyone who were lucky enough to know Carol, just loved her so very much. She loved going out for weekend walks with her husband Dave, it could be a coast path walk, one out in the country or even a walk along a disused railway line. During the second week of October 2010, Carol and Dave enjoyed a wonderful week of walking and visiting so many interesting places. It was shortly after this that Carol started to become very ill and yet she continued to fight and do all in her power to win her battle against the cancer. Carol and Dave would talk about their comeback walk they would do once Carol was well enough to do it. On the 11th October 2010 a day Carol was racked in pain but not prepared to let the cancer stop her from doing what she loved doing; she walked the disused railway line between Torrington and Bideford with her husband Dave by her side. The comeback walk was going to be part two of the railway walk from Bideford Station to Fremington Quay. Sadly Carol lost her brave fight on the 8th April 2011. Carol’s husband Dave, Carol’s sons and all her family will be doing the planned comeback walk in honour of the very beautiful Carol. They want to raise as much money as possible in her name for breast cancer research so that hopefully one day this killer disease will be a thing of the past. Also doing the walk will be friends and work colleagues of Carol and TFF members. We the family of Carol invite everyone who would like to join us on The Walk For Carol. Full details of the walk itself and the part you can play to help raise money for such good a cause can be found on the following pages. Many thanks in advance to everyone who will be doing the walk or just helping by way of sponsorship to raise a good sum of money.
Dave Roach.
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The meeting place for The Walk For Carol will be the RIVERSIDE (see map) long stay car park at Bideford, at 10.30am, (cost is just £3 per a day) please remember everyone is welcome to join us on the walk. We hope to set off from the car park at 10.45am and will walk along the Bideford quay then over the old Bideford bridge and then to Bideford old station. We will then start the walk in earnest from the station at 11am. The walk is approximately six and a half miles in length; the pathway is tarmac the whole way and completely flat and children are more than welcome to bring and ride their bicycles on the walk. Four hours in total has been allowed to complete the walk and arrangements have been made with the owner of the Fremington Quay Café (in the old station building) to provide cream teas, refreshments and other food to all those who want it. Cream teas will cost just £3.95 each, please could you let Louise or Dave know if you would like to order a cream tea so we can give the café owner some figures to work with. Other food will be available on the day at the café and if you don’t fancy a cream tea, you can order something else on the day. Please check out the cafes website and menu on their website at www.fremingtonquay.co.uk
There is a .06 mile flat walk from the quay to the main road where a bus can be boarded to take everyone back to Bideford. A full bus timetable has been included and thankfully the route has a very regular service so you won’t have to long a wait to catch a bus.
Carols grandchildren will be letting balloons fly into the air along the walk and everyone is welcome to do the same if they wish. Carol will be with us all in spirit each and every step we take on The Walk For Carol and the speed she was able to walk, don’t bet against her getting to Fremington Quay in first place.
Please contact Louise Shaw on the following telephone number 077899 02182 or email her at saffishaw1@hotmail.co.uk to let her know if you will be joining us on The Walk For Carol, or email Dave at torquayfansforum@yahoo.co.uk & we will organise an Infomation Pack & Sponsorship form to be sent to you.
If you are doing the walk then please just use the sponsorship form for yourself, if you are not doing the walk you can use the form to sponsor Dave himself. All money raised on the sponsorship forms will be going to the BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER RESEARCH CHARITY. (http://breakthrough.org.uk/ ) alternatively you can make a donation to the CHARITY on our just giving web page at www.justgiving.com/walkforcarol
All money collected via the sponsorship form can be paid directly to Dave Roach or Louise Shaw, cheques should be payable to Louise Shaw please. (See Sponsor Sheet for Louise’s address.
It is very important that you bring your sponsorship form with you please as Louise will take them from you at the start of the walk and log all the details. Louise will then hand back to you the form at the end of the walk so you will be able to collect in all the sponsorship money.
Carol will live in our hearts for ever and will give us all the strength we need to do The Walk For Carol
I was so lucky to have spent the most happiest nineteen years of my life having her in it, her love was true, meaningful and a love that would never die. She was such a rare lady, she never complained, moaned or anything, she woke up happy everyday and stayed that way the whole day long.
Nine and a half years ago she took it on the chin when she learned she had a very rare type of breast cancer. She was happy to have bits of her body sliced off here there and everywhere. Happy to have nasty drugs pumped into her and happy to swallow enough pills to make her rattle when she walked.
WHY? because she wanted to live to grow old and not die, she loved living and even when in such pain, still smiled, still never complained and not once during her illness said why me.
Its one of the reasons I loved her so much, its the reason I have so much respect for her, why I know there could only ever be one Carol.
For nine years she refused to let that cancer stop her from doing one single thing she wanted to do and I felt honored and proud to hold her hand and do all I could to help her fight and stay alive.
Sadly six months ago the cancer stepped up its game and started to win and yet she still refused to lay down and die and still fought as hard as she could, even when I knew myself her life was soon going to end.
I don't know how she walked all those miles with me during the second week of October 2010, maybe she knew there were never going to be anymore Carol and Dave walks together.
Just a few weeks later she went from nine and a half stone in weight to well under six stone. I would joke with her she was my skeleton covered in skin,but I will tell you what, I loved that skeleton because it was still my Carol who still somehow managed to smile.
A month before she passed away, she shocked everyone by turning up for work at Jack Sears nursing home, I still don't know how she even got up off the bed that day, let alone get to town and then work for the whole day. Did she just want one more day at work doing what was so very dear to her heart caring for others?
Yes, it is so wrong that dear Carol had her life cut so short, so wrong she had to suffer so much pain as she did and that is why I can't and won't let the fact her heart did stop beating, be all for nothing. That is why there is going to be THE WALK FOR CAROL.
A walk to honour her and raise as much as possible for cancer research in the hope that one day ladies like Carol won't have to die the way she did.
I would love as many people as possible to do THE WALK FOR CAROL, I hope others will want to just help raise as much money as possible in her name.
All the details of the walk are below and I have also put up the forms for all to see that can be obtained by sending a PM to lou or emailing her at saffishaw1@hotmail.co.uk
these forms can then just be printed by yourself and used, if you do not have a printer then Lou will post you the forms.
You can also just give a donation on our just giving website.
www.justgiving.com/walkforcarol
Details of the walk will also soon be available on the Torquay United Official website.
Sunday 10th July from Bideford Station to Fremington Quay starting at 10.30am
Carol Ann Roach was a beautiful, kind, loving, caring, generous person who always put others before herself. Nine and a half years ago she learned she had breast cancer and battled so hard and bravely to beat it. During her illness she underwent five operations, had chemotherapy three times and radiotherapy once. So often in constant pain she made it so easy for others to be around her and everyone who were lucky enough to know Carol, just loved her so very much. She loved going out for weekend walks with her husband Dave, it could be a coast path walk, one out in the country or even a walk along a disused railway line. During the second week of October 2010, Carol and Dave enjoyed a wonderful week of walking and visiting so many interesting places. It was shortly after this that Carol started to become very ill and yet she continued to fight and do all in her power to win her battle against the cancer. Carol and Dave would talk about their comeback walk they would do once Carol was well enough to do it. On the 11th October 2010 a day Carol was racked in pain but not prepared to let the cancer stop her from doing what she loved doing; she walked the disused railway line between Torrington and Bideford with her husband Dave by her side. The comeback walk was going to be part two of the railway walk from Bideford Station to Fremington Quay. Sadly Carol lost her brave fight on the 8th April 2011. Carol’s husband Dave, Carol’s sons and all her family will be doing the planned comeback walk in honour of the very beautiful Carol. They want to raise as much money as possible in her name for breast cancer research so that hopefully one day this killer disease will be a thing of the past. Also doing the walk will be friends and work colleagues of Carol and TFF members. We the family of Carol invite everyone who would like to join us on The Walk For Carol. Full details of the walk itself and the part you can play to help raise money for such good a cause can be found on the following pages. Many thanks in advance to everyone who will be doing the walk or just helping by way of sponsorship to raise a good sum of money.
Dave Roach.
Page 2
The meeting place for The Walk For Carol will be the RIVERSIDE (see map) long stay car park at Bideford, at 10.30am, (cost is just £3 per a day) please remember everyone is welcome to join us on the walk. We hope to set off from the car park at 10.45am and will walk along the Bideford quay then over the old Bideford bridge and then to Bideford old station. We will then start the walk in earnest from the station at 11am. The walk is approximately six and a half miles in length; the pathway is tarmac the whole way and completely flat and children are more than welcome to bring and ride their bicycles on the walk. Four hours in total has been allowed to complete the walk and arrangements have been made with the owner of the Fremington Quay Café (in the old station building) to provide cream teas, refreshments and other food to all those who want it. Cream teas will cost just £3.95 each, please could you let Louise or Dave know if you would like to order a cream tea so we can give the café owner some figures to work with. Other food will be available on the day at the café and if you don’t fancy a cream tea, you can order something else on the day. Please check out the cafes website and menu on their website at www.fremingtonquay.co.uk
There is a .06 mile flat walk from the quay to the main road where a bus can be boarded to take everyone back to Bideford. A full bus timetable has been included and thankfully the route has a very regular service so you won’t have to long a wait to catch a bus.
Carols grandchildren will be letting balloons fly into the air along the walk and everyone is welcome to do the same if they wish. Carol will be with us all in spirit each and every step we take on The Walk For Carol and the speed she was able to walk, don’t bet against her getting to Fremington Quay in first place.
Please contact Louise Shaw on the following telephone number 077899 02182 or email her at saffishaw1@hotmail.co.uk to let her know if you will be joining us on The Walk For Carol, or email Dave at torquayfansforum@yahoo.co.uk & we will organise an Infomation Pack & Sponsorship form to be sent to you.
If you are doing the walk then please just use the sponsorship form for yourself, if you are not doing the walk you can use the form to sponsor Dave himself. All money raised on the sponsorship forms will be going to the BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER RESEARCH CHARITY. (http://breakthrough.org.uk/ ) alternatively you can make a donation to the CHARITY on our just giving web page at www.justgiving.com/walkforcarol
All money collected via the sponsorship form can be paid directly to Dave Roach or Louise Shaw, cheques should be payable to Louise Shaw please. (See Sponsor Sheet for Louise’s address.
It is very important that you bring your sponsorship form with you please as Louise will take them from you at the start of the walk and log all the details. Louise will then hand back to you the form at the end of the walk so you will be able to collect in all the sponsorship money.
Carol will live in our hearts for ever and will give us all the strength we need to do The Walk For Carol
