Shannon Louise Hennessey

Shannon was born on the 18th november 1999 at 6.36pm weighing 6lbs, exactly two weeks after her
daddy's birhtday. Slightly later than expected but she was worth the wait when we saw those
beautiful big brown eyes.
We were a bit worried when she was born with her eyes wide open just staring at everyone, even the
midwifes were taken back, she didn't make a sound.
Every member of our family that came to see her that night were gobsmacked when they saw the size of
her eyes they were massive and she was beautiful. From that day we knew how speacial she was.

Before we knew it , it was her 1st birthday we had a party for her and she had everybody in stiches
because she was trying to stand up and dance at the same time, she had only just started walking so
she didnt manage it for very long.
She had many friends, people couldnt help themselves she had that personality that eveyone loved.

Birthdays came and went far too quickly for my liking. Then there she was my beautiful six year old
little girl(sorry she didnt like being called little girl) with very much her own mind, mad on cars
and wanting to be a paramedic or fire fighter.I dont think she was bothered as long as she got to
drive something that was big and noisey.

It took her a while to get her in to a routine of going to school, i think she was scared of missing
something at home but we eventually covinced her that if she didnt go to school, she wouldnt be able
to be drive a big noisey fire engine with flashing lights.
She started to enjoy school even to the point of holidays and inset days she wouild still want to
go.

On the morning of 8th nov 06 we got ready for school, she had done some homework to show the teacher
.
I dropped her off at school ,she was really excited because something special was on the big screen
and she started signing like mr tumble does. I didnt even get a chance to cuddle her because she was
busy talking to her friends and watching mr tumble. But i thought i can always give her an even
bigger cuddle when i got home from work that night. She used to wait for me to get in from work so
that she could have a cuddle before she went to sleep.

I went to work as normal we were even talking about her birthday party which would have been 10 days
later we were generally talking about what a cheeky monkey she was.
It got to my breaktime and i got a phonecall from school.My mind went blank when she said Shannons
had "a bit of an accident" and could i come to the hospital, all i could say was is she ok
i was never in a million years expecting what happened . I even told my boss i'll be back as
soon as shes out of hospital.
On my way to hospital i was thinking i'll find her sat on the bed chalming everyone as she
normally did, and when i walked in she would say mummy ive been in ambulance with the lights
flashing. If only.

I walked into a&e, they didnt even ask my name, they just said you'd better come round the
back way.
At this point my heart sank i felt sick i just wanted to get to her and see she was ok. She told me
to sit in a room where i found the head mistress and a doctor crying, i thought what the hell is up
with them? If you dont mind could you tell me where my daughter is?
They sat me down and said those words you dont want to hear 'we tryed everything, but im sorry
to tell you'.
He went on to tell me Shannon was eating her dinner and a piece of sausage had got lodged in her
lungs, she had choked there was nothing left they could have done.
It was like his lips were moving but i couldnt understand what he was saying, while he was doing
this he had ripped my insides out and drop kicked them.
It took a while for it to sink in, then i was hysterical and just wanted to see her, i didnt believe
them.
I did go and see her and gave her that big hug i had promised.
We went to see her everyday, we took her birthday preasents to her that had already been wrapped up
for her birthday. I needed to see her everyday untill the funeral.

The funeral did indeed show how loved she was, over 200 people came to say goodbye and it really
helped us get through the second worst day of our lives she was treat like a little princess, so
thankyou to all of you.


I hope we did you proud sweetheart and i hope where ever you are that your being looked after and
that little beautiful face of yours is always smiling, just like it was when you were with us.


in our hearts forever
love you always
mummy and daddy
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