Rachael chronicled her entire cancer journey on her Facebook page, Big C. Little Me., and on Sept. 3 she got the worst news of all: she only had a few more days to live. After seriously thinking about Freddie's well-being, she decided to finish a few projects before she passed away.
She wanted to wrap up a memoir for Freddie and left her husband's sister a list of things to remember for her son's future. "Like not cutting his hair too short until he really insists, or my wish for him to go to the very best school and university possible, so long as that's what he wants," she wrote.
But the most heartbreaking task she needed to complete? Compiling birthday gifts for Freddie to open every year until he turned 21.
"I'm also planning and wrapping birthday presents which he can open between the ages of four and 21 . . . Personal effects like my notepads — so he can see what my writing was like. Or the perfume he helped pick out for me earlier this year so he'll remember my smell. And his all-important box of newborn keepsakes."
