[Albion] Lewis Hammans

timbha said:

What a wonderful tribute to your much loved son and fellow Albion fan.

We’ve all lost something today.

As others have said speak to your GP and use NSC as much or as little as you need. We’re one big and diverse family.

RIP Lewis and mum

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portlock seagull said:

Tonight I’d like to pay tribute on this thread to my beautiful, funny and extraordinary talented nephew Lewis. He was only 20 years old and yet in spite of his disability he achieved incredible feats and brought so much joy to his family and friends during his short life. Our pride in his achievements like our love for him as a family will never diminish. His auntie and I will miss him enormously. We are heartbroken too, the pain my dear brother, sister in law and 3 nieces are enduring tonight is indescribable. Only 7 days ago we buried our mum, Lewis’s gran, who loved him more than words can describe and who raised tens of thousands of pounds to help fight Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy. It was her dying wish to be there to support her eldest son and beloved daughter in law through the inevitable day this wretched disease would finally break all our hearts. Alas after battling her own terminal illness for nearly 3 years she finally succumbed to it last month. And so my wife, our dear old dad and I will instead do our best with others to take care of them now. We are a small but very close knit family who care about each other deeply and are similarly blessed with a caring circle of friends, many of whom are fellow Albion fans and we have shared decades of treasured memories with up and down the land, in the Van of Brothers.

But I’d like to also pay tribute tonight to my brother, Lewis’s dad, Chris. I speak for hundreds I know when I say no father has ever lived that did or tried to do more for his son. He wasn’t just his dad. But his carer. His inspiration. And best friend too. They’ve been inseparable as he’s taken Lewis around the world to see and do so many things in his short life that many of us may not despite a lifetime three or four times as long. And yet he also found time to manage the Albions Powerchair team, driving through terrible conditions with other dedicated parents to compete in countries as far away as Denmark and Russia as well as the regular domestic fixtures centred in Nottingham that meant early Saturday departures and late Sunday night journeys home to Sussex. I like the rest of our family have always been in awe of his sheer stamina and devotion to his family and yet he still found time to run his local scout group and other community groups on weekday evenings.

I hope one day that we will be able to watch the Albion together as a family in Lewis’s memory. For now though my dear brother, know that you and Sue did everything you could for your darling son and that we, your family, will forever hold him in our hearts too.

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Lindfield by the Pond said:

Just writing this for my own selfish/cathartic reasons, but I've been here long enough to know that sometimes it helps ease some pain.

My lad died this morning at 5am.

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Hugo Rune said:

Sounds like the lad was very very lucky to a have father like you.

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portlock seagull said:

...We are a small but very close knit family who care about each other deeply and are similarly blessed with a caring circle of friends, many of whom are fellow Albion fans and we have shared decades of treasured memories with up and down the land, in the Van of Brothers.

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