My Story

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1984 to 2004
aged: 20
From: Glasgow

Chris Kirkwood (20)
born 8-1-84 & died 1-8-04

My brother-My hero-My best friend.

My brother chris was born to our mum joyce and dad andy. In our family there was me (lynn) the eldest, then chris followed by giz (graham) 2 years later. Chris went to Calledonia Primary school & then on to bannerman high school, where he was a well liked guy who had many friends. Chris was a down to earth guy who always liked to have a laugh & a carry on & had a great love for football where he played in teams since the age of 8. Chris became ill at xmas 2000 & in january 2001 was diagnosed with aplasticanemia & survived on medicine, pints of blood & platlets but then went on to get myoblastic syndrome & was told he would need to have a bone marrow transplant. Giz & i were tested to see if we were a match but with no success. So we all had to wait for an annonimus donor. All through chris illness his girlfriend ashliegh helped him through the good & the bad times & in october 2002 chris found out he was goig to be a daddy. Chris was so excited he used to help me with my baby Rhys getting in some practice for his own baby & on 6th of june 2003 his boy callum was born. Chris was the happiest guy in the world that day & couldnt wait to tell everyone. Chris happyness was over shaddowed though as a few weeks later chris was given the worse news possible. He now had Leukemia & his only way of survival was a bone marrow transplant. On 6th november 2003 chris had his transplant but with no success & on 3rd of april 2004 chris was told there was nothing else the doctors could do for him. Devastation flooded our family but Chris had a completely different attitude. He told everyone there was no point in worrying about things you cant control. We didn't know how long he had but he was determined to make the most of the time he had left & proposed to Ashliegh & 4 weeks later he & Ashliegh had a wonderful big wedding & also chris & his golden boy callum were christened too. Chris tried very hard to make the most of his time left but began to get too tired & fell asleep on the 1st of August 2004 in the bone marrow transplant unit in the glasgow royal. Chris had planned most of his funeral by himself as he didn't want to leave too many things for my mum & dad to do at such a hard time that was the way chris was, he didnt want to cause to much of a fuss. Chris is sorely missed & although its 3 years now i still cant except why he had to go. He had so much to live for as he was studying sports therapy at college & was training with his much loved football team Partick Thistle, under the thistle legend John Lambie. So chris this is for you! The most amazing guy ive known i miss you more than words can say. Near the end you said you were looking forward to seeing our two grans again & i hope you are with them now along with my amazing godson robert who died this year too i know you will look after the wee guy well!

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