Justina was a happy, healthy, 16 year old when she was diagnosed with Lymphoma/Luekeima on June 20th 2001. I say healthy because she was never sick. She has three sisters and was the healthiest of all.

From the day she was diagnosed her soul died. Her eyes grew dark and cold. She no longer was my happy ditzy little girl. She was so frightened about what was happening to her. I didn't know how to tell her, when she would ask "Why did this happen to me?" All I could tell her was, "I don't know either. Someday we will know why." I felt so helpless, I could always take away my child's fear, but this time I was afraid too. I didn't know what to tell her.

Over the next 5 months she would get sicker and sicker. The Chemotherapy would make her so sick and weak. She couldn't go to school that year, she couldn't go out in public, all she could do was sit in her room and drift further and further away from us.

On November 17th we celebrated her 17th birthday which none of us knew would be her last. Two weeks later on November 30th she went into a coma at Kosair's Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky. Before she went into the coma the doctor's had told us the tumor was back. When I asked her what she was thinking how she was feeling she said, "Mom I just want to die." And an hour later she went into the coma that she would never come out of.

I will never forget her last words to me, but I knew they were the truth. She told me how she really felt. Justina passed away on December 8th 2001. She had lost her battle to the disease that she hated. She wanted to go on to a better place and I know she is an angel. I know God has plans for my Angel, but I will always miss her. And I cry for her everyday. Rest In Peace my little one God's promise is I'll see you again someday. When that day comes I will run to you and hold you again. I can't wait for that day because my wishes will have come true. I love you and miss you forever.









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