Yesterday I found out that someone I went to school with form kindergarten until we graduated high school was on hospice for metastatic breast cancer. She died this morning in her husbands arms. We were FB friends and our daughters had the same name. She also has a son. She went off of FB about a year ago. She kept her battle very private. We were in the same friend group throughout middle school. We were pretty close back then. I remember in the 6th grade we became "patrols" for the younger kids and had posts. She had a very special one..... there was a little girl with Downs Syndrome who was mainstreamed in our school. She was in charge of just her morning and night. Because of her she decided she wanted to be a special ed teacher and that's exactly what she became.
36 years old. A friend has sent me the post form Instagram he wrote after she passed this morning. I can't stop the tears. She died in her husbands arms surrounded my her family.
