How do you say thanks for gift of life?

THERE are gifts for which a simple thank you is gratitude enough and there are others that leave us speechless.

Collette Kinsey, 35, has spent the past six months struggling to find the words that will adequately convey her appreciation for the gift of life.

Just 10 years ago, she was grappling with a hopeless prognosis given her by doctors in Britain: blindness, a wheelchair and dialysis.