Tenth day of Christmas, and today’s songs come from Charlotte.
How these friends managed to narrow their songs down to a few contributions for these blogs, even with the overlapping choices that underline their shared experiences so well, is hard to imagine. Has to be a tough job. When they are all together at the Transplant Games, or wherever, music and dancing are never far away. Nor is laughter. They have enough in common already in their stories of health and hospitals and medications and procedures, any opportunity to share the joy of being together is a gift to be relished. It’s their eloquent tribute to their donors and donor families, to their own families, their friends, and to the gift of life. No surprise then that some of the songs are repeated. And for some, when there’s an opportunity to sit together in the lap of a koala bear, it just has to be taken…(see below!).
Thank you, Charlotte, for these songs, and the places they take you…
“My Love, by Westlife – I love Westlife and we used to listen to this song when I was in hospital and was apart from my family, reminding us we would all be back together one day.
You’ll never walk alone and We are the champions are both Transplant Games favourites, probably been given by everyone! (So true, Charlotte! More of this to come on day 12…) They bring us together and remind us we have all been through our own journeys that people in the ‘outside world’ can’t always relate to.
Superheroes, by The Script and The Climb by Miley Cyrus. These two just make you think about how far you’ve come and everything you’ve been through to get there.
Hold on we’re going home, by Drake. This one might be a bit of a random one, but I used to listen to it in hospital and it made me feel so lucky that I was going to get better and go home, as I knew not everyone would.”
Charlotte (left) with Lucia