I Got the Hardest Phone Call......

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Hi All

I do hope everyone had a good 4th of July. I went to my sis's to see the

baby's nursery and for a BBQ. LONG DRIVE...Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyways, I was coming to terms ( OR had stopped crying about at

that time) when we got a call from Memphis, TN. Thinking it was her hubby Brad

telling me when the funeral is, I picked up the phone. Well, on the other end

was na. Steph's 7yo daughter. She apparently had gone through her mommy's

Cellular and found my number. She was telling me she was going swimming at her

grandma's b/c its the 4th of July. Anyways...she then goes on to say...and her

voice started to crack.

" Thank you for being my mommy's friend "

My heart shattered into a million zillion little pieces. It took everything I

had not to start balling on the phone. So I talked with her a little bit

although now I could have thought of a million better things to say. I was just

floored that this 7yo who just watched her mommy die was saying thank you to me?

God it hurt. I then preceeded to cry the entire 2 hours to my sisters.

What bugs me the most was that Steph had tried to call earlier that week to

say " hi " but I wasn't home. I planned on calling her back this weekend. I will

never get the chance to now.

I thought it was hard hearing Brad's voice all choked up from

crying....hearing her little girl, whom she worshipped, was 100x worse.

MY moral is....if you have friends on this list....make that extra effort to

meet them. Life is so dang short and Never take for granted that you can talk

to them later. B/c you may not be able to.

Becki

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Becki,

That would have been awful. What did your friend die from? I always

think its worse for a child to loose their mother than father (sorry

dads). Mums are their world.

(Australia)

I Got the Hardest Phone Call......

Hi All

I do hope everyone had a good 4th of July. I went to my sis's to see the

baby's nursery and for a BBQ. LONG DRIVE...Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyways, I was coming to terms ( OR had stopped crying about

at

that time) when we got a call from Memphis, TN. Thinking it was her

hubby Brad

telling me when the funeral is, I picked up the phone. Well, on the

other end

was na. Steph's 7yo daughter. She apparently had gone through her

mommy's

Cellular and found my number. She was telling me she was going swimming

at her

grandma's b/c its the 4th of July. Anyways...she then goes on to

say...and her

voice started to crack.

" Thank you for being my mommy's friend "

My heart shattered into a million zillion little pieces. It took

everything I

had not to start balling on the phone. So I talked with her a little bit

although now I could have thought of a million better things to say. I

was just

floored that this 7yo who just watched her mommy die was saying thank

you to me?

God it hurt. I then preceeded to cry the entire 2 hours to my sisters.

What bugs me the most was that Steph had tried to call earlier that week

to

say " hi " but I wasn't home. I planned on calling her back this weekend.

I will

never get the chance to now.

I thought it was hard hearing Brad's voice all choked up from

crying....hearing her little girl, whom she worshipped, was 100x worse.

MY moral is....if you have friends on this list....make that extra

effort to

meet them. Life is so dang short and Never take for granted that you can

talk

to them later. B/c you may not be able to.

Becki

YOUR FAVORITE LilGooberGirl

YOUNGLUNG EMAIL SUPPORT LIST

www.topica.com/lists/younglung

Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease Society

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InterstitialLung_Kids/