So my health decline started after my car accident at 15. But came to a big, ugly head in 2017. In March I contracted CDIFF from a colonoscopy.For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a HIGHLY contagious colon infection that is so bad it takes a very expensive, compounded antibiotic to defeat. Or essentially, a poop transplant to give you healthy microbiome to fight this infection. Anyway, I beat that, then the next month, I had a heart attack. I was at work, and had been on nitroglycerin for chest pain for 2 years. All the tests came back "normal". Did all of them, thank you Jesus, my husband and I have always carried good health insurance. The heart attack was caused by a 100% blocked artery across the front of my heart, and while they were stenting that, the widow maker across the back of the heart was 80% blocked. So in 24 hours, I had 2 heart surgeries. I beat that. It was the one of the scariest times in my life!My husband of 25 years has never believed in a "Higher power" is how he says it. But that night, my oldest daughter, came in to the waiting room and saw my husband crying and praying, while I'm in the operating room asking if I'm gonna die, crying praying to God not to take me yet. 😭😭😭😭😭 I wanna see my kids and grandbabies grow up. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I prayed like I had never prayed before. The doctor's wouldn't answer me. Woke up in recovery like 32 hours later. Cuz I had to have it twice in 24 hours. They kept me sedated. Took months to recover, but I swear, I have always had a prayer army behind me and an army of angels on the otherside. 😇😇💫💫🕊🕊Then after recovering from that, I had put off having a mammogram and my doctor pressured me into getting one. Well I ended up with 7-8 in a week. I had two masses, one in each breast. So now I have to have 2 biopsies. They came back non-cancerous, but had to come out. The pain in your nipples from that surgery is awful! Like a hot knife thru the end of your book. 😭😭😭So I get through that. Actually come back a little.So this is where I stopped working. I was always sick with something and now my back is rapidly going. I will be in a wheelchair one day the doctor's say. But I'm still upright. Barely. Then in 2020 I got "Covid" in January, IN March we went into lockdown. The pain in my back is so bad at this point, they convinced me to get a morphine pain pump installed in my back. Warning, I will be showing graphic pictures of this surgery. I had 3 surgeries over the next 6 months. 1 to put it in, 2 to put it in deeper, cuz my body rejected it! God rejected it! 🙏🙏🙏 for the month and a half it stayed in, it was the best pain relief with the least side effects I had ever had. And the 3 to take it out, cuz it wouldn't stay in. Anyway, here are the photos from the aftermath of those surgeries.

My Aunt Ragina's poem as we released my mom's ashes: Where the sun reflects off waterfalls as it cascades to the stream below, Lay your head down while birds sing and let the deer drink the water of your soul. Gentle winds whisperer the trees and you say "Think of me". May you rest in Peace as the past echoes along the trails. Remembering you, we will not fail. We'll see your smile in firefly lights and hear your laughter on rainy nights. And when the hootowl tells you goodnight, a blue bird will wake you at morning light. Rest in peace forever and a day. Rest in peace where your heart sings God gave you life we can give you wings! In loving memory of my cousin and first bestfriend, Sharon Corkhill

Started my mom's speech out with Psalm 23.    "I wanna thank each and everyone who has come today to celebrate our mom's life with the family that could make it.  I love each and everyone of you for being here today. I'm sure most of you here had a bittersweet relationship with my mom. My mom at times was my bestfriend and at times we didn't get along at all, but none of us are perfect. The one thing I can say is we always forgave each other, we always came together again. My mom had me at 16  as you all know. We had more of a friendship than a mother-daughter relationship. At 7, our little family of 3 grew by 5 when my mom met Johnny and we moved in with him and his 4 kids. We truly were the Brady Bunch. We now had 2 older sisters, and 2 older brothers. My mom had met her soul mate with dad. Thank you to my sister Lynette for coming with her beautiful little family. Addiction took ahold of our parents for along time. But my mom beat that addiction and was 2 years sober. I was so, so proud of her! It was something I have prayed for since I was 13-14 years old. It was all in God's Timing."   Insert 2 Corinthians 1:3-4.   "I know my mom is in Heaven. Aunt Mary called me and my sister to tell us the nurse had been there, and mom's blood pressure was super low. Time for her to go was very close we needed to come say goodbye. When I got there Mary told me she had been agitated and restless all day and strange things had been happening all day. My Aunt prayed in the spirit over her till I got there. I get there and Mary had to leave, she already had an appt. At the funeral home for arrangements.  I held mom's hand and sang her 2 songs, then prayed over her. I saw my niece Haily and my grandma Norma standing there to take her into the light.  She took her last gulp of breathe and I felt her soul leave her body. It was me, her dog, and her as she left this life. I trauma bonded with her dog Squirt, now Harper, and brought him here today. I feel her presence everyday in him. I'm so glad she came home and we got 2 more years with her. I thank God so much for that time with her. She is now living her best life with the family that went before her. I love you all, I will leave it with these few verses and a prayer. Matthew 11:28-30 and Luke 22: 39-43.. Thank you lord Jesus for bringing us all here today to celebrate my mom's life and to bring us together and love on one another during this time. Pray for the safety of everyone as they travel back home. In your precious son's name we pray, AMEN.

I have many people in my family who have been in the armed service. Great Grandfather, Grandfather, 3 Uncles, many, many cousins and my son. Also many on my husband's side of the family as well. My son gets married August 3rd and deploys to Kuwait in October. Say a pray today for all who have come b4 us to defend our freedom, even under this false administration. Freedom is not free. Many people's family members have died to give you the rights you have today. This memorial day is a special one as we are all fighting to get our constitutional freedoms back. We must fight like never b4, because if we don't, those who came b4 us died in vain. Just take a moment today to thank someone you know who served or is currently serving, Thank them for their service. Let's not forget what today is truly about! I love you all. Have a blessed Day.