My Angel

Cancer is a very common word in my house. It usually comes into conversation, but when I was 11 I hadn't really heard of this horrible thing that we call Cancer. Until one February day I got home from grade 7? or 6? I don't really know it doesn't really matter. My mom worked from home on Wednesday afternoons and I just got home I could tell she was stressed. They had been talking about my Auntie Rhonda quite a lot and I always questioned what's wrong? is she okay? and that horrible afternoon my mom told me my dear Auntie Rhonda at age 40 had Breast Cancer. I remember sitting down and crying with my mom that afternoon because it was the first time I heard that word "Cancer" in a person that I loved so very dear! She got her treatments and shorty after maybe a year she was in remission.

We decided we were going home that Christmas home being Scotland. Little did we know it'd be her last healthy Christmas and her last Christmas spent with her brother (my dad). We all gathered around her 21 year old, her 8 year old, and her 4 year old and we opened gifts and had an amazing time the next day we went to my other aunts and had a Canada party it was awesome! We then left Scotland to come back to Canada.

It was probably December 2012 when I found out that the Cancer was back but back to stay. She was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer they didn't know how long she'd live but they knew she wouldn't last very long.

In March 2013 things got bad and never got better. They took her to a hospice in the middle of March and my dad went back home. A week after my dad's return at about 11:30am The Lord called my Auntie Rhonda home. She died beside her sister and her oldest son.


Today is her 43rd birthday...

I love you auntie rhonda and reading this over brings tears... forever in my heart you'll stay<3

Happy Birthday!

 Your Niece,

Drew xoxo