Ellie Lexie Thompson
@ellielexie.bsky.social
Editor at My Baba, podcaster, freelance writer. Author of Jellie Diary and mum to Maddie and Billy The Brave, fighting DIPG brain cancer. 🇬🇧
September 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s #NationalLipstickDay! My kinda day. 💋
July 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s #NationalLipstickDay! My kinda day. 💋
How we raged, raged against the dying of the light ❤️🩹
March 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How we raged, raged against the dying of the light ❤️🩹
Our love is bigger than the distance in between us ❤️🩹
March 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Our love is bigger than the distance in between us ❤️🩹
Dearest Billy,
A year ago we were three weeks into the hell of your diagnosis, but two years ago today, you’d just met Father Christmas and life was good. It was your second Father Christmas meet of the weekend. You were three and you stood there in wonder, but five-year-old Maddie was unimpressed
A year ago we were three weeks into the hell of your diagnosis, but two years ago today, you’d just met Father Christmas and life was good. It was your second Father Christmas meet of the weekend. You were three and you stood there in wonder, but five-year-old Maddie was unimpressed
November 27, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Dearest Billy,
A year ago we were three weeks into the hell of your diagnosis, but two years ago today, you’d just met Father Christmas and life was good. It was your second Father Christmas meet of the weekend. You were three and you stood there in wonder, but five-year-old Maddie was unimpressed
A year ago we were three weeks into the hell of your diagnosis, but two years ago today, you’d just met Father Christmas and life was good. It was your second Father Christmas meet of the weekend. You were three and you stood there in wonder, but five-year-old Maddie was unimpressed
Dearest Billy,
A year ago we finished decorating your room. You’d decided on a space theme before we knew you were sick and Grandpa had already painted a night sky feature wall and I’d ordered some pretty cool stickers. 🧵
A year ago we finished decorating your room. You’d decided on a space theme before we knew you were sick and Grandpa had already painted a night sky feature wall and I’d ordered some pretty cool stickers. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Dearest Billy,
A year ago we finished decorating your room. You’d decided on a space theme before we knew you were sick and Grandpa had already painted a night sky feature wall and I’d ordered some pretty cool stickers. 🧵
A year ago we finished decorating your room. You’d decided on a space theme before we knew you were sick and Grandpa had already painted a night sky feature wall and I’d ordered some pretty cool stickers. 🧵
I’ve been spending a lot of time this past few months looking at photos and thinking backwards on things. How much time can change everything. Today I found this. Taken in north London somewhere. 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I’ve been spending a lot of time this past few months looking at photos and thinking backwards on things. How much time can change everything. Today I found this. Taken in north London somewhere. 🧵
Forever mine, Billy. Wrapping myself up in memories of you helps, just a little.
What a life you had ahead of you here. So much to come. A future mapped out that somehow, at some point, changed course so your time was cut heartbreakingly short. How could something like that happen? 🧵
What a life you had ahead of you here. So much to come. A future mapped out that somehow, at some point, changed course so your time was cut heartbreakingly short. How could something like that happen? 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Forever mine, Billy. Wrapping myself up in memories of you helps, just a little.
What a life you had ahead of you here. So much to come. A future mapped out that somehow, at some point, changed course so your time was cut heartbreakingly short. How could something like that happen? 🧵
What a life you had ahead of you here. So much to come. A future mapped out that somehow, at some point, changed course so your time was cut heartbreakingly short. How could something like that happen? 🧵
I’ve been Facebook friends with another DIPG mum from New Zealand for a few weeks now. Through her posts, I’ve watched helplessly from afar as her little boy Caiden unknowingly walked the same path as Billy, following in his footsteps as Billy did the child before him, right until the very end. 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
I’ve been Facebook friends with another DIPG mum from New Zealand for a few weeks now. Through her posts, I’ve watched helplessly from afar as her little boy Caiden unknowingly walked the same path as Billy, following in his footsteps as Billy did the child before him, right until the very end. 🧵
“At the end of the day, it’s about the people who are by your side when life gets hard. It’s about the people who are there when you need them the most.
It’s about the people who say “we’ve got this” when you are facing challenges. 🧵
It’s about the people who say “we’ve got this” when you are facing challenges. 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 9:29 PM
“At the end of the day, it’s about the people who are by your side when life gets hard. It’s about the people who are there when you need them the most.
It’s about the people who say “we’ve got this” when you are facing challenges. 🧵
It’s about the people who say “we’ve got this” when you are facing challenges. 🧵
It’s Sunday again.
A year ago I held your hand. And now you’re never coming back. Sometimes that thought feels so very loud.
I would give anything to feel your little hand in mine once more. 1/2
A year ago I held your hand. And now you’re never coming back. Sometimes that thought feels so very loud.
I would give anything to feel your little hand in mine once more. 1/2
November 17, 2024 at 9:29 PM
It’s Sunday again.
A year ago I held your hand. And now you’re never coming back. Sometimes that thought feels so very loud.
I would give anything to feel your little hand in mine once more. 1/2
A year ago I held your hand. And now you’re never coming back. Sometimes that thought feels so very loud.
I would give anything to feel your little hand in mine once more. 1/2
Pipe network errors! Is all I seem to be getting on here. Nothing seems to work. Back to X then?
November 14, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Pipe network errors! Is all I seem to be getting on here. Nothing seems to work. Back to X then?
Reposted by Ellie Lexie Thompson
November 13, 2024 at 6:55 PM