JAMES

Got a phone call late last night to let me know that my friends son James had passed away. He was only 20 but had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He had been in a wheelchair since he was about 7 or 8.

I remember James and my daughter Nic dancing around my living room when they were about 3. I have a picture of that someplace but couldn't find it to blip.

I remember watching his Mum struggle for years knowing only to well what would happen to her son as he got older.

And I know only to well now what her and James' 2 sisters and brother are going through having lost a child myself.

But I will always remember James as that wee boy dancing around the livingroom with Nic...