strength and peace for you.
God bless
~Cari
Lee wrote:
>
> Many of you know that my stepdaughter, Natale, has been battling
> Leukemia since mid October and have contacted me off list to offer
> support and encouragement, thank you for your kindness. She was
> young,strong and healthy and one day, out of the blue, that all
> changed. This has been a parents worst nightmare.
>
> I am heartbroken to say that three weeks ago today Natale passed away.
> After the third round of chemo failed, Shands hospital told her there
> was really no hope, so Natale decided to come home. She tried one more
> round of an experimental chemo treatment while she was at home and
> when that failed we called hospice.
>
> Natale was very clear that she wanted to be home with her family and
> not die in a 10x10 hospital room, and Hospice made that possible for
> us. She got to spend time at home with her five year old son and had
> us keep a fire roaring in the fireplace from morning till night every
> day. She loved the first sip of a freshly open and ice cold diet coke
> so we opened a new one for her whenever she was thirsty and she loved
> eating only the marshmallows from the Lucky Charms cereal. She had her
> entire family with her through all. She died in the most graceful and
> gentle way imaginable, with her family surrounding her. I will be
> forever grateful that god showed mercy in her final days and Hospice
> was able to get and keep her pain under control.
>
> Natale was only 25 years old, but brave and strong well beyond her
> years. She did everything she could, every treatment and procedure
> they had, in order to live. She braved pain that was beyond imagining.
> She was the most courageous person I have ever known.
>
> We will never understand why.....and even though we know the living
> must go on living, we are just so grieved it feels like we cannot get
> through this.
>
> Go home and kiss your kids cause life can change in a minute.
>
> Thank you again for all your kindness.
>
> Lee
>
>
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