| Location | Ohio, Usa & Cumbria, England |
| Age | 9 years |
| Cause of Death | Cancer |
| Date of Birth | 12/05/1997 |
| Date of Death | 19/09/2006 |
| Visitors | 11,328 since 22/04/2007 |
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This website is primarily dedicated to the memory and courage of an amazing young girl and to the
continued strength and inspiration of her family. Also I hope that the site will raise awareness of
neuroblastoma which is a fairly rare but particularly serious and nasty form of childhood cancer
that attacks the nervous system.
Christine Shayna Thomas “Christi”, the beloved daughter of Shayne and Angela Thomas, the adored
big sister and best friend of Shayla and te very special friend of Emma and Nicky died on September
19, 2006 at just 9 years old. Christi battled with Neuroblastoma for 4 hard years during which she
was described as "bravely fighting with the strength of a soldier while maintaining the grace and
beauty of a ballerina, happily teaching life’s lessons to everyone she met and touched along the
way". Christi had great loves of animals, people, art, learning, ballet and most of all she was
beautiful, funny and had a great love of life that never, ever left her.
Although our sweet Christi has indeed 'gone too soon' from earth, she will forever live on in the
hearts and minds of her family, friends & thousands of others around the world who knew her in
person and through her website which recorded her incredible journey.
Throughout her illness with the tireless, loving support of her family Christi, worked to support
and raise awareness of neuroblastoma. This work continues in many ways after her death. The most
powerful example of this being an experimental cell line taken from Christi's body is being used in
trials in Amercia to try to establish a cure for this terrible illness - given that only 1 in 20 of
these succeeds it's testament to this amazing girl that hers is that one!
I could never do justice to this incredible, inspirational, beautiful young girl and her wonderful
family but you can find out much more about them all by visiting Christi's website and the blog her
family started during her illness and faithfully continue to update :-
Christi's website : www.christithomas.com
Christi's blog : http://christithomas.blogspot.com
I think the following quote from Christi's mum Angela perfectly sums up our feelings for Christi :
"Without a doubt, she knows she’s loved! Without a doubt, she gave one hell of a fight!"
Friends all over the world continue to love, miss & be inspired by Christi and her family.
We miss you Christi xx
Remembered, missed, wished for and most importantly,m loved always - Christi Thomas (12th May 1997 -
19th September 2006)
****---------------BABY ANGEL------------------- ****
Also through this website we remember the short (less than 24 hours) but important life of my
special niece whom we have come to know as "Baby Angel" - her real name is Christi too but that
makes life more confusing and painful just now - besides a Baby Angel is now what she is.
Our Baby Angel is the much wanted and long waited for, very beautiful baby daughter of my twin
sister Emma. We all know Emma would have been the best "forever mummy" that any girl could wish for
but unfortunately, owing to one dreadful act that happened in the evening of bonfire night 2006, our
sweetheart became an angel on 6th November 2006, not quite 23 hours after she joined us on earth.
Although our Emma was never allowed to be "mummy" in the usual way, she has a different way to be
mummy to our little one and although the pain of that is not measurable, my sister does her little
one, herself and the rest of us very proud indeed.
Although very small, our Baby Angel was, is and will forever be a huge, much loved and very wished
for part of our family. We know that she is being taken good care of in her new place by her "angel
sister" Christi and also Lottie and that she has a very special "angel brother" called Jack - a
beautiful, funny little boy who should never have had to share the same experience as our baby
angel.
It would mean the very world to us and to Baby Angel, if she could both be remembered along with our
other very special angel Christi. This page and all of the friends we have met through the memory of
our beautiful and much loved Christi and our little baby angel mean so very much to us all and we
send you all our love and thanks for thinking of us.
Unfortunately it is sometimes difficult for us to visit Christi & Baby Angels page or those of their
amazing new angel 'family' ' and friends as often as we would like to but we are always mindful that
our girls have introduced us to some very, very special friends. We all really do think of you all
very often and are very grateful to eveyone who shares their time and kindness with us in honour of
our 2 beautiful little angels - thankyou xxx
****---------------EMMA------------------- ****
Also remembering my very much loved twin sister Emma who at last joined her Baby Angel on 19th July
2009 - Emma, my darling "better-half", I love you more than you could imagine & miss you so very
much. I hope that at finally you "know how it feels to be free" & that you have found the happiness
& peace that you so deserve.
hi christi honey,
what a long day it is today but i think that will be a good thing for you angels as it gives you more time for laughing & having fun. easter is always one of your special times and so it is one of our harder times so we need to know that you are laughing and being happy xxx
i heard that one of your neuroblastoma friends called erin joined you as an angel yesterday. i know that you and your angel family will make her welcome and help her to stay close to her mum,dad & big brother. what's all of this about christi?
it's nearly sleeptime for the little ones now so time for you and lottie to read baby angel, ruby & jack their stories - maybe jordy can help i bet he's good at the voices too - not too much laughing though or the little ones will never get to sleep - you'd probably enjoy that though missy!
Have the best of evenings princess & remember that your nicky & your emma love and miss you and baby angel so very, very much.
XXXX Miss you XXXX
XXXX Love you XXXX
Looking through some photo's of you has been making me smile today christi, also making me wish, wonder, miss & love you even more. I think that you'd best have extra fun today just for us please & send lots of your angel magic down to shayla who i know misses you very, very much. I hope that you don't mind me sharing some of the photo's on here. Keep close to your angel family & share the hugs & kisses that i'm sending to you with them but as always don't forget the extra special sparkyl one that is just for you to keep in your pocket.
Love you & miss you - always my hero & my very speical christi xxxx
Hi gorgeous christi,
just a really quick visit to say that i hope you're getting ready to visit the easter egg hunt being held in your honour in your hometown today. You attended the event every year from being 3 years old and always loved it -e veryone knew that you loved it so now it has become the Annual Christi Thomas Memorial Easter Egg Hunt - lots of fun and laughter for the children and i can imagine that along with lottie and jordy, you will be having lots of laughter and fun and also helping the littlies like baby angel, ruby & jack to find all of the eggs.
knowing that the egg hunt was one of your best days in the year makes us think of you and wonder and wish even more than usual...... also it makes us love you even more (just when we thought that was impossible!)
Stay extra close to your shayla today sweetheart as she gives out the prizes in your honour, i know you're every bit as proud of your little sister as we all are of both of you.
love you christi - have a fun day darling and be sure to share all of your hugs and kisses with whoever you choose. Stay close darling girl xxx
love you forever - nicky xxxx
Who do I turn to when times are bad
Who do I turn to when I feel so sad
Who helps me when I am unhappy too
Who is there for me when I feel blue
Who can help to ease my pain
Who can say my life will be the same
Who really cares I just do not know
Who can even tell when I feelso low
Who can stand by me, always by my side
Who can I ask now you have died
XxX ~ XxX ~ XxX ~ XxX ~ XxX ~ XxX ~ XxX
Sleep well my darling have no fear
I feel you standing beside me here
When times get hard and I feel so sad
Remember the good times that we had
The bad times too they stay in my mind
So now I dream dreams of a different kind
I dream that we will be together one day
I can only hope you still hear the word I say
I love you with all of my heart
Right now we seem so far apart
But you live on inside of me now
We will be together someday somehow
Love Always ~~ Jane...XxX
Hey Christi,
I hope you're having the best of days today sweetheart. As always am joining in with the wondering, wishing and missing of the important people in the lives of all of your special angel family & friends....
I'm guessing that dancing will be over ith by now and that after a lunch of your favourite Saturday things, you'll be having fun woth jordy and the boys at footall and no doubt planning an evening of laughter and fun with your angel family - after you have helped to settle baby angel, ruby, jack & the other little ones down to sleep with one of your very special stories - i can imagine you, lottie and jordy taking turns to do the voices!! I'm suprised the little ones can get to sleep as they must laugh lots and love al of the hugs they get from their angel sisters and brothers xx
I miss you sweetheart, it's that simple and that complicated XX
Thankyou to you, baby angel and the others for helping us with lots of brave and some laughter this week. It's been a hard week for us with Sam getting his new knee, Amelia having her scan and your Emma also having some tests at hospital - we should be better at brave by now but........ oh yes, you must help jordy and lottie to tell jordy's nan where some of the feathers were found this week!!
I heard that ruby's friends sent some red balloons to her from her pre-school, i just know that you & lottie will have helped ruby to catch them all & that you will all have had lots of fun catching them - i don't have to remind you to say thankyou to ruby's friends for te balloons - you're always the first to be ready with thankyou's aren't you sweetheart.
We're driving home later today Christi and yes, there are many, many lambs to look after - maybe you, lottie and jordy would like to come and visit them and bring the little ones too? I'd love to hve you with me but I know you're always with me - just not in the usual way.
Well, darling, I have to go now as Amelia is waking up. We talk to her about you, baby angel and lottie every single day and you will always be a very special parts of her life.
Love you honey - always - you know what to do with the hugs and kisses don't you Christi - how full is thatpocket of yours? I miss your hugs X
Lots of love to you darling Christi
Nicky xx
Love to you too Baby Angel, keep having a perfect day darling and keep makinig your angel family laugh lots and lots XX as always stay close to your mummy but i know you do that xxx always a big and much loved part of our family xx we miss you little one xxx lots of love from aunty nicky, amelia and many millions of hugs and kisses from your lovely, brave mummy XX
Hi Christi
Jut a very quick hello but it's stuffed full of my love for you & baby angel - just the same as always xxx i hope that you're having fun, fun, fun & we know exactly where you and the other members of the mischief gang can send some of their fun this week don't we? that's right hoeny, you can all send lots of it to sam please - that's in between taking care of him and sending him lots of your 'brave' (!!) whilst he has his operation tomorrow!
Please share my love and my hugs with baby angel, lottie, jordy, ruby, stephen, jack & all of your other angel famnily & friends and their families too - let them know i'm thinking of them XXX
Love always to you my darling girl and as always my millions of hugs & kisses for you to ... well, you already know don't you sweetheart XXX
Love you Christi - stay close honey & most importantly stay happy sweetheart
Your Nicky - for always XXX
Extra hugs and kisses to Christi, Lottie & baby angel from Amelia xxx
Also love as always from Emma to her 2 speical girls XX
wishing you the loveliest of saturdays too baby angel xx have lots of fun with your angel family xxx love you little one xxx stay close to your mummy for me won#t you darling xx lots of love from auntie nicky xx
night night baby angel, time to snuggle down ready for another lovely story from christi & lottie xx we wonder & we wish and yes, little sweetheart, we miss you very much xx sleep well and visit mummy lots at dreamtime won't you darling xx
love you lots from auntie nicky xxx amelia xxx
as always baby angel, millions of hugs are coming your way from your lovely mummy xxx
hi honey,
just hoping that you have a lovely evening xxx i see that the mischief gang had fun on the way to school today xx i wonder what sort of evening you're having christi? Sam has taken Amelia to see her nanna & grandpa and emma is sleeping so i'm 'home alone' - i know what i'd usually do right now .... i miss that and everything about you so much sweehteart xxx lots of wondering and wishing instead though and also lots of love for you christi xx i can imagine you and lottie settling the littlies down to sleep and reading their stories and then when jordy is settled in front of tv, the pair of you can have a lovely time with lots of girly things, laughing and yes, as many pink things as you can find - wonder if you can remember remember....i know i do and always will, like so many other things they're locked safely into my box of precious memories xxx i never tire of loving you christi and never will - always my speical girl xxxx
i hope you don't mind this photograph, another of my favourites - it was a moment of peace in the middle of a major mischief session that you and shayla were having one day i think xx i think you look extra beautiful on it xxx
as always here are my hugs & kisses - you knopw waht to do with them and yes please share them with baby angel (is she good at catching tehm yet i wonder??), lottie, jordy, ruby and all of our other angel friends and family. as always though christi, i've put an extra special one just from me to you for that very full pocket of yours xxxx
love to you honey from nicky xxx
love to you also christi from emma xxx and big kisses from amelia xxx
well christi and what about auntie sue also xxx
Hi christi xxx
someone is playing with Lottie's auntie sues spelling also x i wonder i just wonder x you lot playing pink mischief on auntie sue and nicky i bet x share your hugs and kisses with each other you may have to hold jordy down x but will you all blow some this way please xxx thinking of you nicky xxx emma xxx lots of auntie hugs for you Amelia xxx
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