Zurich Legacy Kitchen Cookbook - Book - Page 57
L e g ac y K it c hen
Georgina
Armstrong
Teddy was funny, kind and clever, he loved
been lying on his back for weeks and I said
ice cream, Hot Wheels and going to nursery.
‘Would you like to go home for Christmas?’
In September 2023 he was diagnosed with
he sat up so quickly and shouted ‘Yes!’.
a brain tumour at just two years old. This
Before Teddy had cancer, we enjoyed
happened just weeks after his baby brother,
cooking
together.
He
loved
making
Laurie, was born.
gingerbread and eating the dough. So on
After months of living in hospital, there
Christmas Day, I made a batch, but could
was a moment where it became clear it
only find dinosaur shaped cutters. Teddy
would be Teddy’s last Christmas. Doctors
didn’t mind, he took so much pleasure
and nurses and family and friends alike all
in cutting out the shapes and eating the
moved mountains to get us home.
biscuits.
On the 23rd of December, Teddy’s
We sadly lost Teddy a few months later,
uncle dressed up as Santa and visited him
at three years old. I still continue to make
in hospital with presents. That afternoon
dinosaur gingerbread cookies with his little
we came home, laden with bags of oral
brother Laurie, and it always reminds us of
chemotherapy,
the special moments we shared with Teddy
steroids,
anti-sickness
medication and painkillers. Teddy had
together.
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