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another young life ?????? THE teenage of swimming legend Tracey Wickham achieved her final wish this week when she married her "soul mate" just three hours before her death from cancer. Hannah Ciobo, 19, lost her three-year fight against the disease in a Queensland hospital at 1.15am on Tuesday. Hannah and her fiance Tom O'Driscoll, 20, had been due to be married next week by the lagoon at Twin Waters on the Gold Coast. The couple were so determined not to let death interfere with their love story that Tom organised for a Catholic priest to marry them at the Wesley Hospital at 10.15pm last Monday. Tracey Wickham, dual swimming world champion and former holder of the 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle world records, said she was comforted that Hannah had got her dying wish. "She knew what was going on, she gazed into his eyes and the love they had for each other was incredible," a distraught Wickham told Southern Cross Broadcasting today. "Tom is the most special person ... they were meant to meet. They were meant to get cancer and they were meant to meet because he was her soul mate and vice versa. "The year they had together was so beautiful." Hannah died with her family and friends around her three hours after the bedside ceremony. Her funeral service will be held on Sunday at 2pm in the chapel of All Hallows School in Brisbane where she was a student until two years ago. Wickham said the occasion would also mark her 's marriage. "We are going treat it as a wedding," she said. "She's going to be buried in her wedding dress and there will be six bridesmaids and groomsmen, including my . "Their little is going to be carrying the rings up in the chapel." Wickham said despite her having been in a hospital gown and on oxygen she "was aware" of the ceremony, which was attended by 20 family members and friends including Hannah's father and brother Daniel. "It was obvious she wasn't going to make it - that was her wish to be married. Tom suggested it and she agreed," she said. "There was love in her eyes (during the ceremony). Tom was alone with her and he saw her slip away. "She was too young to die. Hannah was a fighter until the end, just like her mother. She passed away peacefully with family and friends." Hannah and Tom's relationship had the hallmarks of a fairytale romance. They first met while both were in hospital receiving cancer treatment in September 2005. Romance blossomed at the end of last year when both were cleared of cancer, but Hannah's reprieve from the disease did not last long. She was diagnosed for the fourth time in June this year, with an inoperable tumour pressing on her right lung. Two weeks later Tom proposed as the pair launched a united battle to overcome her latest diagnosis. Hannah had already courageously beaten cancer three times. She was first diagnosed in October, 2004, with synovial sarcoma (a rare and aggressive form of cancer) but beat it after several operations, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Yet the cancer returned on two more occasions. Tom was diagnosed in 2005 with Ewing's sarcoma - a cancer that starts in the bones or soft tissue - but was cleared last year. Yesterday, Wickham described her - whose paintings proudly hang on the walls of the family home - as her "teacher". "I learned a lot from her. Everyone has taken her death very hard," Wickham said. In an interview last month, Tom described Hannah as "the most inspirational, the most colourful and the most beautiful person I'm ever going to meet". "I'm absolutely blessed having her in my life. She makes my world so bright," he said. Wickham, who has had knee and shoulder surgery and suffered back pain in the last few years, won 400m and 800m gold at the 1978 world titles and four Commonwealth Games gold medals (1978 and 1982). She held the 400m and 800m world records until 1987 - long after her retirement.  to think of life as a journey of your actions and a result of you reactions |
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Some people are just amazing. Some loves are so rare. They are lucky to have experienced a magical one. to think of life as a journey of your actions and a result of you reactions
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Some people are just amazing. Some loves are so rare. They are lucky to have experienced a magical one.
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yes tracey is one of our iconic sports legends here a beautiful lady with so much success with tradgedy like that for her thanks for visiting my blog canorob moyzie to think of life as a journey of your actions and a result of you reactions
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tsokolatte that is a tragic love story isn't it to think of life as a journey of your actions and a result of you reactions
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