Today has been a day of improvements, …
Today has been a day of improvements, thank goodness. Rachel's ANC has jumped from a grand total of 30 yesterday, to …
Join Now
Rach 
Dear friends,
It has been a long time since I have written here.
As a family, we have been blessed to share some wonderful times together over the past couple of weeks. It has felt so good to smile and laugh.
However I am now praying for the strength to get through this weekend and the week to follow.
Sunday the 25th is Tanika's 17th birthday, and this coming Wednesday, the 28th, would have been Rachel's birthday.
The girls LOVED having their birthday's so close (although Rachel went through a phase until she was about 5 years old - she COULD NOT understand why Tanika's birthda is first, yet SHE was THREE YEARS OLDER!!!)and would excitedly plan birthday parties together each year.
When they got a little older, they began to alternate whose 'party year' it was. But they still usually celebrated with our relatives on the same day as each other.
This year is the first year one very important member of our family is not here to celebrate her sister's birthday...or her own.
Last year Rachel had a wonderful birthday morning. She was in hospital and feeling pretty cruddy but she wasn't going to let ANYTHING ruin her day.
That afternoon, her oncologist came and delivered the news that her cancer had relapsed and spread through her lungs, despite the fact she was still in the midst of heavy duty treatment.
Still, my ballerina baby took the news on the chin, and smiled the rest of the way through her birthday.
Like I said - she wasn't going to let ANYTHING ruin her day.
One year on and she's our special angel.
We love her and miss her more as each day passes.
We are learning to cope, but the ache will never completely leave us.
God...give us the strength to make it through this week, remembering the good times, and celebrating the nineteen years of wonderful memories.
Love, the Scully's
It has been a long time since I have written here.
As a family, we have been blessed to share some wonderful times together over the past couple of weeks. It has felt so good to smile and laugh.
However I am now praying for the strength to get through this weekend and the week to follow.
Sunday the 25th is Tanika's 17th birthday, and this coming Wednesday, the 28th, would have been Rachel's birthday.
The girls LOVED having their birthday's so close (although Rachel went through a phase until she was about 5 years old - she COULD NOT understand why Tanika's birthda is first, yet SHE was THREE YEARS OLDER!!!)and would excitedly plan birthday parties together each year.
When they got a little older, they began to alternate whose 'party year' it was. But they still usually celebrated with our relatives on the same day as each other.
This year is the first year one very important member of our family is not here to celebrate her sister's birthday...or her own.
Last year Rachel had a wonderful birthday morning. She was in hospital and feeling pretty cruddy but she wasn't going to let ANYTHING ruin her day.
That afternoon, her oncologist came and delivered the news that her cancer had relapsed and spread through her lungs, despite the fact she was still in the midst of heavy duty treatment.
Still, my ballerina baby took the news on the chin, and smiled the rest of the way through her birthday.
Like I said - she wasn't going to let ANYTHING ruin her day.
One year on and she's our special angel.
We love her and miss her more as each day passes.
We are learning to cope, but the ache will never completely leave us.
God...give us the strength to make it through this week, remembering the good times, and celebrating the nineteen years of wonderful memories.
Love, the Scully's
Comments
You might also like ...
Hello all, Well, Rachel's ANC has …
Hello all, Well, Rachel's ANC has been hovering around the 700 mark for the last couple of days, which is much …
(This is Rachel's Mum Linda writing) …
(This is Rachel's Mum Linda writing) Today, Thursday August 24th 2006, is exactly one year to the day since my baby …
welcome back! it's been a while since we heard from you...be strong through this week. we've all been missing you and we are praying for you.
Doug
I am sorry I missed seeing this before--Doug is right, we have missed you and you are in our prayers. Rach was and is still an inspiration to us all and you are too. I hope you know her life touched a great many of us. Hugs, Robbin
gluless