Arielle, 29, lived life to the fullest

ADHERING to the call to wear “a touch of yellow” at the funeral for 29-year-old cancer patient Arielle Angelica Fahey-Cadiz, hundreds of mourners yesterday remembered her as a free-spirited woman who was full of life and had spunk.

Hours before the funeral, held at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help RC Church in San Fernando, someone posted a message on her Facebook page, Fit To Fight Cancer, asking people to wear yellow. It represents the colour code for Osteosarcoma, the type of cancer which she had.

Two of her siblings, Nicola and Ricardo, as well as her cousin, identified as Mawasi, took turns and delivered the eulogy for the mother of one. Ricardo said at the age of five, Fahey-Cadiz was already showing her love for the arts and had started participating in calypso and dance events.

She was also a member of the Malick Folk Performing Company but due to pains, her dancing career had slowed down.

“Arielle was a free spirit. Her beautiful smile could have light up an entire room,” he said. He remembered Fahey-Cadiz for her boisterous and contagious laughter saying, “We know she was coming even before we could see her.”

Nicola and Mawasi told mourners that on being diagnosed in April last year, Fahey-Cadiz decided to take the bull by the horn, put on her boxing glove and fight cancer.

Throughout the ordeal, she maintained a positive attitude which was evident in a post she frequently shared via her Fit To Fight Cancer Facebook blog. She shared the good, the bad and the ugly of her struggle. Fahey-Cadiz was buried at the Roodal public cemetery at Broadway, San Fernando.