Melissa's Service

If you were unable to make it to Missy's service, here is a link to our family's eulogy of our sweet girl.  Here is a link to her best friends eulogy as well, and below is the slide show we played of our favorite pictures set to one of her favorite songs.

Thank you once again for your amazing love and support of Missy and our entire family during this heartbreaking time.

Arrangements

Here is a link to our Sweet Melissa's obituary and the details of her services.

Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support during this heartbreaking time. 

Our Sweet Missy

Our sweet Melissa Rae passed away peacefully last night after a two and a half year coragous battle with brain cancer. Our family was with her, surrounding her with love. We know she will always be with us. We are completely heartbroken. Thank you for your prayers, love and support. I will post arrangments here when they are made. Please share this with anyone who loved our Sweet Missy.

An update on Missy

The last few weeks have had major changes for our sweet Missy. The past weekend brought new heartache with her mostly losing the ability to communicate with us and fighting constant focal seizures. Yesterday we were at the point of needing to have help from the hospital to fight the seizures, so an ambulance came to take  her to the local hospice hospital.

Yesterday was very challenging, but around 3pm we got her seizures under control and she was finally able to rest. She has now been sleeping for a little over 24 hours. We don't know what each day will bring. We hope she wakes up, we hope to take her back home, but what we hope for most is peace for our sweet Melissa. 

I wanted you to know we are here. I know your prayers, good thoughts, and support will give our family comfort. Missy has lived a faith filled life for many years. She relies heavily on prayer, and we are at peace with whatever is to come. But this heartbreak is so difficult for us all. Your loves prayers and support just help to lighten that load.

December NIH Visit

The week before Christmas Missy and our dad went back to the NIH to meet with doctors about her cancer.  We learned that her new medication is not working. There is nothing else available to try. They are taking her off all treatments and just placing her on steroids to keep swelling down. After Christmas Missy and our parents met with the local doctors and with Hospice to begin this new stage of dealing with her terminal cancer.

 We are heartbroken. Truly and completely heartbroken. But we are also trying to focus on where we are right now. She is no sicker today than she was before the trip to NIH, we just have more information today. We had a wonderful Christmas as a family and rang in the New Year all together. We will just have to wait and see what 2013 brings, taking it one day at a time and enjoying every moment we have together.


This is harder than I could ever imagine.  For now, our family is spending as much time together as possible.  We are talking and laughing, hugging and kissing and telling each other as often as possible how much we love the other. Someone is always with her. We are all here together, spending time with our Sweet Missy.   Hard days are ahead of us, but for today, we are living in the now.  We are doing the very best we can and are loving each other with the time we are given.