hoMEGirl revisited
You know how you meet some people and you're instant friends. You feel like you've known this person forever and you're just reconnecting. When you're happy they rejoice with you and when you're down they instinctively know when to wallow with you and when to tell you to get over it and let's go have some fun. I have been blessed to know people like this, and one of them is Megan.
On July 18th Megan went into labor and had a beautiful baby girl, Rylee. That same day she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Megan was a trooper through the whole ordeal. She kept a positive outlook and quickly became the most popular person on the cancer ward. Megan told us that she'd beat this cancer, that she would fight it with everything she had. And she did. After four months of treatment and chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant she was cancer free. But the damage was done. Her body could not recover from what the disease did to her. She had blood clots, her heart was failing, her lungs were leaking, and on Monday morning at 12:50 she passed away.
I can't talk about what an incredible person Megan was or the thousands of lives she touched or how much I am going to miss her. My eyes are worn out from crying. My sorrow is coming in waves now. My heart is breaking for her family.
This is not meant to be a sad post. I am left with wonderful memories of Megan and stories that I will hold dear. What I don't have are pictures of Megan and me together. After the years I've known her and all the time we spent together I don't have a single snapshot of the two of us. So I am posting this as a warning to all of my friends. Whenever we get together I will be taking pictures. I will be documenting our memories. Not to worry though, I will not post unflattering pictures of you on the internet. Megan would not approve.
It's been so long since I've been here, I don't remember how to link anymore. Here are some links about Megan I want to keep.
http://www.ryanandmegansmith.com/Ryan_and_Megan_Smith/Welcome.html
http://meg.creatingyourhappiness.com/?cat=15&paged=4
On July 18th Megan went into labor and had a beautiful baby girl, Rylee. That same day she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Megan was a trooper through the whole ordeal. She kept a positive outlook and quickly became the most popular person on the cancer ward. Megan told us that she'd beat this cancer, that she would fight it with everything she had. And she did. After four months of treatment and chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant she was cancer free. But the damage was done. Her body could not recover from what the disease did to her. She had blood clots, her heart was failing, her lungs were leaking, and on Monday morning at 12:50 she passed away.
I can't talk about what an incredible person Megan was or the thousands of lives she touched or how much I am going to miss her. My eyes are worn out from crying. My sorrow is coming in waves now. My heart is breaking for her family.
This is not meant to be a sad post. I am left with wonderful memories of Megan and stories that I will hold dear. What I don't have are pictures of Megan and me together. After the years I've known her and all the time we spent together I don't have a single snapshot of the two of us. So I am posting this as a warning to all of my friends. Whenever we get together I will be taking pictures. I will be documenting our memories. Not to worry though, I will not post unflattering pictures of you on the internet. Megan would not approve.
It's been so long since I've been here, I don't remember how to link anymore. Here are some links about Megan I want to keep.
http://www.ryanandmegansmith.com/Ryan_and_Megan_Smith/Welcome.html
http://meg.creatingyourhappiness.com/?cat=15&paged=4