Good Bye Sweet Fernanda (7-9-77 to 4-26-09)

Her joy!

She loved her birthdays and would talk about who she´d invite months ahead of time.

A beautiful lady. Here she is during her radiation treatments.

In momma´s garden as a little girl.

When she found out she was going to have a nephew (Matías) and we celebrated my pregnancy with ice-cream.

My sister-in-law Fernanda passed away on Sunday, April 26th. She was a girl born with mental retardation, but the sweetest thing ever. She made everyone smile and had so much life. She had the best hearing and could hear if you were talking about her in quiet voices downstairs while she was "napping" upstairs. She told everyone what she thought just as innocent as a girl. When you told her to smile she usually gritted her teeth. She loved sweets. She loved her family. And she loved her Savior Jesus. What she learned about her faith she always shared.

Cancer took her quickly. We discovered that she had a tumor under her tongue about last September. It was removed and she had radiation therapy on a metastasis, but all was unsuccessful. Both tumor and metastasis returned. Major surgery was required if she was to live, but the surgery would have removed so much in her neck and face that she´d think she became a monster overnight. It would have been painful physically and emotionally and would have left her without speech. When the decision to not operate was taken we only had her about one more month.

Now she is celebrating with Jesus in heaven with her new body and beautiful robes of holiness. It is terrible to not have her, but we know she is at rest and back at her true home with God.

Thanks to all those that had held her in prayer. She was a testimony to God´s faithfulness to the end.