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Old 10-29-2007, 12:27 PM
MissT74 MissT74 is offline
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Default Re: Funeral thoughts

I gave the eulogy at my niece's funeral. She was 10 days old when she died, and we knew that she had Trisomy-18 at 6 months term. My sister decided not to selective abort (she was a twin) and gave birth to both. During the 10 days of life, the entire family stayed with my sister at her house in CA and we all took turns/shifts taking care of the baby, had hospice in the house, etc. etc.

This is a sister that I grew up HATING, no joke. However, because I'm in the medical field, I seemed to be the one elected to care the most for the baby (Jocelyn) during her 10 days and that really, truly, brought me and my sister close together and thus I was the one who spoke at the funeral upon her request.

Never had an "enjoyable" funeral, but have been to about 7 in the past 8 years.

T
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