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March 24, 2008 Journal Entry No 1.
I am not sure were to begin. I had just arrived home from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My daughter has AVM and we went to Mayo to have her brain surgery. My phone rings and to my horror, it was my niece she told me that my sister was in the hospital and had been diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her brain and bones. I could not believe it! I had just talked to her from the hotel in Rochester a few days before and she had said she was not feeling well, I pleaded with her to go to the hospital then but she said she thought it was just the flu. You see she had been ill off and on for a long time and I was getting worried, and with her husband in Iraq I guess she just didn't worry about herself as much as she was about Mike, God how could this be? This is crazy, first my daughter and now my sis! We got Mike out of Iraq and she had the tumor removed from her brain, now she is going thru the radiation on her spine and brain. She has lost so much weight, but we are trying so hard to keep her spirits up. She will be starting her chemo treatments today and we are all worried as to how she is going to handle it. I want my sissy to get better, I want to grow old with her, God please don't take my sister from me. I will continue to journal my story as time goes by. I pray that someday cancer will only be a memory in out world.
Thanks to all who stopped by to read my sisters story and keep her in your prayers.

Well here I am wondering why.... Today is March 31, 2009 and Nina has been gone for 9 months... I still miss her .... Today I was going through some of her cloths ( I really thought I was ready for this) and all I could do was cry and smell them.. I was hoping to smell my sissy just one more time.. Its been cold in my hometown and the flowers are not blooming , kinda like me!!! I bought a rose for you sissy, a pink climbing rose, it will be planted so that it can climb on the arbor that you gave me... I found a song for you too its called "Sissy's Song" I play it all the time and I am learning how to do it in sign language, you are my angel and maybe signing it will reach you in heaven.... I love you NIna and miss you like crazy... Love Annie

Well today is Mikes birthday sis, sure wish you were her with us to celebrate. I think tonight we will take his telescope outside and look up at the stars, that way we can celebrate with you up in heaven if only for a little bit.... Tweety bird died today and I buried him in your meditation garden so be watching for him, i know you loved him too and I am sure he will be talking up a storm and singing Yankee Doodle Dandy to you... Oh Sissy I Love you.