Sad News

I just opened up an e-mail this morning from one of my friends in my Moms Club.  One of our other members has been battling leukemia for a couple of years now & she has lost her fight; she passed away on Monday morning from complications from her bone marrow transplant that she had done a few months ago.

I can't stop thinking about her.  Her name was Denise & she was one of the sweetest people I've ever met.  Such a sweetheart & so helpful to anyone that needed HER help.  Soon after we really became acquainted, she got the leukemia diagnosis & she soon needed our help; our Club made meals for her & her family, put together care packages & I just mailed her a big package of cards & gifts to her hospital room in Houston about a month ago.  When I was pregnant with Kaylee, I went to visit her in the hospital here in Round Rock & she was so upbeat!  Her hair had all fallen out from the chemo, but all she wanted to talk about was how I was feeling & how Austin was doing.  

Her oldest son just graduated last year & is in the army, while her youngest son is Austin's age.  It breaks my heart to think that he's going to grow up without having her in his life.

Please pray for Denise's family.  With Mother's Day just a few days away, I pray that they use this time to celebrate her life & how wonderful she was.  It is a time for mourning as well, but she was such a special lady that I want to remember her how she was before the leukemia took over her body... sweet, precious Denise.