Farewell Sweet Girl
MY HEART ACHES TODAY...
My heart aches today, for my niece died last evening.
After a three-year battle with cancer.
It was a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma that generally has an eighty-five percent chance of being cured or driven into remission.
But her's did not respond to the common treatment regimen.
Nor did it respond to the more aggressive treatment regimens.
It eventually appeared to respond to an, as yet, leading edge, "experimental" drug treatment, which appeared to drive the scourge into complete remission.
But the cancer was only hiding, and it returned after a brief respite.
My heart aches today, for my niece died last evening.
Like my wife and I, her parents are "older".
They are devastated, for no parent ever contemplates having a child die before them.
Knowing what's coming never really eases the pain when time and life run out.
And their hearts are breaking, never, I am certain, to be repaired.
My heart aches today, for my niece died last evening.
She was so brave, it made you cry.
She never asked why her, and always accepted, with few complaints, the discomforts and pain of the disease's progression and of the treatments themselves.
She struggled valiantly to maintain a semblance of normal life, while she picked away at her bucket list.
In the later stages, she doggedly refused to enter hospital, insisting instead to stay at home with her family and dogs.
Even sat with them all to watch and cheer the last Superbowl game.
Until time and strength finally ran out.
My heart aches today, for my niece died last evening.
She was nineteen.
Postscript: Please, take a few minutes today to donate a dollar or two to Cancer Research... so that sometime in future fewer hearts will ache and fewer tears shed. Thank you.
― Phil Friedman
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