What
A Day That Will Be
She
died 21st of October.
My mum, dad and family found it hard to get over.
Then I was born and my little sister,
They told us the bad news,
It felt like a big heart blister.
We went weeks,
Months and years,
Trying to cope each day,
Without tears.
To bury her organs,
We waited for ages.
Every day off the post,
Through the door came pages.
We went for a meeting,
In the Adelphi Hotel.
We sat there and listened,
To people like Tony Bell.
My family did lots of charity work,
To keep them going each day.
A Pity II website, a sponsored walk,
A Talent Show and a Cinderella play.
We still have to wait,
To bury her parts.
What a day that will be ...
All those broken hearts.
Debbie
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PITY
II (Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice) is the parents' support
group set up in the wake of the organ retention scandal
at Alder Hey Hospital (Liverpool, UK). It aims to provide self help
support and advice to affected families.
Keywords: PITY II, pity II, pity ii, PITY 2, PITY2, pity 2, pity2, Never
Again, never again, DNA, Myrtle Street, poem, poetry,
Liverpool, liverpool, organ, retention, alder hey, heart, inquiry, Redfern,
redfern, scandal, support, children, Retained Organs Commission, ROC,
coroners,
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![Link to Alan Milburn's [Secretary of State for Health] Speech to the House of Commons [UK Government] on the 30th of January 2001](../images/report2.gif)
