Just one more sunrise and sunset

by Nancy Baraglia
(Huntington Beach, California)

I lost a 38 year old daughter to cancer almost six years ago. She survived the ravages of chemo and radiation along with twenty-five or more major surgeries for 20 years before she lost her battle with the disease.

What I have learned from her is to take "one-day-at-a-time", basking in the morning sun and moonlight which she so dearly loved. She was the bravest and most courageous person I have ever known, always smiling and happy to just be alive.

Because of her courage, bravery and will-to-live, she is documented in the Medical Journals for experimental surgeries, one in particular where she was documented as the first woman to ever receive a urostomy pouch designed from her intestines which relieved her of a plastic bladder bag.

Shortly before she died she wrote, "I have enjoyed immensely 20 years of sunrises and sunsets and for that I am eternally grateful."