The David Joseph Fay Forever Fund
D was my partner of 8 years and he died on the 8th May 2010 of viral meningoencephalitis, a rare form of viral meningitis.
D was a happy, fun loving person, who enjoyed running, going to the gym and playing golf with his mates, he was a people person and did so much for everyone else, so having this forever fund is the perfect way, to do something for David and help raise some money that will hopefully go towards finding a vaccine that will stop others going through what David and those that loved him have gone through.
Miss Susan Gaywood
November 9, 2010
D, this is the 1st candle lit for you and I know there will be many more, words can’t explain how much you are loved and missed babe, lot of love, Sue X
November 15, 2010
Hey Babe, it's a bit late but here is a candle to mark your 32nd Birthday (03.08.10) lots of love Sue X
November 19, 2010
This one is for our 8 year anniversary (30.09.10) the one date that you were never any good at remembering!! ha ha babe, Sue X
December 13, 2010
If i could blow out this birthday candle and make a wish babe you know what it would be! Sue X
December 25, 2010
Merry Xmas Babe, I know you are with me today and always, Love you loads Sue XXX
January 1, 2011
2011, I can't believe you are not here with us babe. I promise this year we will continue to raise money in your memory and know you will always remain in our hearts today and always, Sue X
January 1, 2011
Miss you D, Gill X
February 14, 2011
My sexy boyfriend D, my 1st Valentine's Day without u, my heart will always belong with yours, I really wish u were here with me, love u long time babe Sue XX
April 24, 2011
Happy Easter Babe, Love You Loads, Sue XXXXX
May 8, 2011
It's been a year since you were taken Babe, but it doesn't seem to get any easier. You are always in my thoughts and my heart. Will love you forever D, Sue XX
May 25, 2011
Miss U D .... S x
August 3, 2011
Happy 33rd Birthday Babe, wish you were here to celebrate it with me, love you loads Sue X
September 30, 2011
It's that day of the year you were always rubbish at remembering babe, this would have been our 9 year anniversary. I miss you loads, Lots of Love S x
December 13, 2011
Wish you were here to celebrate my birthday with me babe, miss u loads, Sue xx
December 26, 2011
Merry Christmas Babe, Lots of Love Sue xx
January 1, 2012
Happy New Year Babe, 2012 the second year with you not being here. I know you will always be with us in our hearts and thoughts Love Sue XXX
February 14, 2012
Love you today and always babe, miss you loads, Sue xx
May 8, 2012
I can't believe it's been 2 years babe ..... I think about you every day and miss you so much. Love you lots xx
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Bupa London 10K 2012
Sue & Gill will be running the Bupa London 10K again this year and will hopefully raise more money in memory of D for Meningitis UK.
If you would like to sponsor us please copy one of the following links into your browser where you will be able to make a donation:
http://www.justgiving.com/Team-D2012
or
http://meningitisuk.tributefunds.com/fund/Bupa+London+10K+May+2012/showFund/
If you would like to join Team D and run, jog or walk with us it's not to late, please contact me and I will forward you the details
Sue
Posted on February 7, 2012
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Team D will be running 10K on the 30th May to raise more money for Meningitis UK.
If you would like to sponsor us please click on the link at the side of this page or go to http://www.justgiving.com/Team-D2011 .
Thank you for your support
Sue x
Posted on May 10, 2011
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Team D, managed to run 5k in 40 mins at Southampton Common on the 9th October 2010 and have so far managed to raise over £1700 in memory of D.
Below are the links to the press releases for the run:
http://www.meningitisuk.org/news-and-events/latest-news/friends-and-family-run-to-conquer-meningitis-in-davids-memory.htm
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8444333.Southampton_fun_runners_raise_thousands_for_charity/
http://www.basingstokeobserver.co.uk/news/community/team-d-honour-593
Posted on November 23, 2010
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I can't believe that after all those years of you calling me a smurf babe, I finally have a range of Haribo sweets named after me!! I can honestly say thay taste good as well :-) wish you were here to try them as well, I know you would have been making fun of me with them! x
When we first started going out, I remember u spending the afternoon making yourself a CD and it had the song growing pains by ludacris feat scarface & dtp, on it, when I heard the disc I really liked that song so I borrowed the CD & put some of the songs on tape 4 the car but managed 2 loose your disc! When I could no longer use the tape, I tried 2 get u 2 make me another disc, but 4 years I tried singing this song 2 u and u had no idea what I was singing well I'm pleased to say that 2 day I found the song and I now if u were here u would say "oh yeah I remember this one", so just 4 u babe here's the link XX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r33vbpOnIFw
We were talking at the station this morning and someone asked me if I had nice clean trainers for the run. I told them the story of when we were walking back through the park after going out in Palace and you told me to take a short cut and we both ended up walking through some boggy grass and really dirty wet trainer after we nearly sank in the water. I had only had the trainers a day, so you said you would wash them and sort them out as it was your fault. I didn’t realise that when you put them in the machine you had put them on a boil wash. When they came out they were so tiny, you had managed to shrunk them and yours came out ok. I did say that I wouldn’t be taking any chances with washing my trainers before the race!!! x
D is gone, but is loved so much and never forgotten XX
You can shed tears that he is gone-
Or you can smile because he has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back-
Or you can open your eyes and see what he has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see him-
Or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live for the past-
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember him only that he is gone-
Or you can cherish his memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
Be empty and turn your back-
Or you can do what he would want;
Smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
I don’t know how we end up talking about these things at work, but we ended up on the subject of Pokemon cards and I thought about when we bought that tin of cards at the boot sale and we had the bright idea of selling the ones that were worth money on Ebay and as I was reading the names of them out, you looked them up on the net and I told you I had a ‘tornado of turbulence’ and I hadn’t realised what I had said, but you found it really funny and told everyone that I had been suffering from this new medical condition which was really embarrassing – it took a while before you let me forget that one babe xx
I can’t believe his time last year me and you were sitting outside the White Hart in Crystal Palace with Gill and Rose celebrating Rose’s Birthday, shades on, catching a bit of the April sunshine.
We all found it funny, when in true Rose style she spilt a drink over the whole table and in the process of mopping it up, ended up joining the conversation of the people sitting next to us and at one point even went and sat at their table!! You always moaned about going out with us girls and being the only guy, but to be honest deep down I know you actually liked coming out with us, we weren’t as bad as you would make out J
The events that followed this day I will never understand, but have learnt that you can’t change them no matter how much you want too. Although, I do wish that all those years of trying to come up with inventions that would make you millions you had found a way to turn back time babe!!! XX
Today I thought I would try our luck at the Grand National - I tried to pick horses with the highest odds like you always convinced me was the best way and like last year we failed to win anything babe!!!
It did bring back memories off when we were watching it last year with Fronc and me and you had been out in the morning putting on all the bets, when it came to the race, we were cheering on the horses that we had chosen and then we all realised that Fronc's horse hadn't even started, it had failed to cross the start line and was actually going backwards, we were all laughing for hours, only Fronc could choose that horse!!
Hopefully next year I'll manage to pick the winner :-) xx
Hey Babe,
My mum was talking about you the other day and she could never understand why you called her Mother Mayhem. She finally realised when I explained that every time I came to visit or spend time with her I would end up in some sort of drama or trouble. For some reason it just seemed to follow us around and you always found it funny when I told you about what we had been up to and you thought the name was rather appropriate for her. I know she misses the chats you often had and you calling her Mother Mayhem, the name just doesn't sound right coming from anyone else!! X
St Patrick’s Day - you often went out with the boys to celebrate this (must have been connected to those Irish roots of yours) and every year you would come back with one of those large hats, despite the fact you always said you were just meeting them and going for one drink. I’m not sure what has happened to all the hats you managed to accumulate over the years, which as you told me took a lot of skilful drinking :-) but I have the one which you got a couple of years ago with the clovers on and the baby Irish logo’s on, which we brought to the hospital to try and brighten up your bed while you were there, I’ll make sure it gets an airing this year or maybe another one to go with it babe!!! X
When I got to work this morning, a notice about St David's Day popped up on my screen, it made me smile as it reminded me of how you use to tell me and everyone else that it was a day to honor you!!! So Yaki Dar Dewi - I know I don't need to translate this as you got quite good with the Welsh words Gill taught you, although I've probably written it wrong ha ha :-) XX
If tears could build a stairway and thoughts a memory lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken, no time to say good-bye, you were gone before I knew it and only God knows why. My heart’s still active in sadness and secret tears still flow, what it meant to lose you, no one can ever know …. I miss you so much babe X
Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other, that we still are
Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you always used, put no difference into your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed, at the little jokes we always enjoyed together, play, smile, think of me, pray for me, let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was, there is absolute unbroken continuity
Why should I be out of mind, because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner, all is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost’ one brief moment and all will be as it was before, how we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
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Target: £10,000.00
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