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March 22, 2004
 
Born on March 22, 2004.
April 2, 2005
 
Samantha was her sister's flower girl.  We spray painted a little red wagon ivory, draped it with greenery, and her brother pulled her down the aisle.
July 7, 2007
 
Samantha was the flower girl for our cousin Daniel's wedding on 7/7/07.  She was dressed like a little "Mini Bride".  For the Rehearsal, she did pretty well throwing the petals as she walked down the aisle in her denim skirt and pink cowgirl boots.  But for the wedding, she froze up and marched down the aisle like she was mad and didn't throw a single petal.  It was hilarious.  Daniel smiled so big when he saw her coming down the aisle that everyone thought it was surely his bride, Jamie, that he was looking at.  But, it was sweet little stomping mad Samantha...  This photo was taken the night of the rehearsal.
January 25, 2009
 
Samantha got what we thought was the flu.  She barely had a fever and was a little congested.  The daycare had called and told me about her fever and that she had been sick to her stomache.  That was a Thursday.  I called her grandmother and asked her if she could stay with her the next day, because I was afraid her fever would come back and they would just send her home from school.  Her grandmother said she acted tired that Friday, but didn't seem to be getting worse.  That evening we were packing and finishing our move into a house in the country.  Samantha seemed to have a cold or the flu, but okay in general.  Saturday she seemed worse.  She wouldn't eat hardly anything and kept saying everything ached.  Her fever was barely up, but she still seemed like she was getting worse.  Sunday I called our pediatrician's hotline and talked to a nurse.  When I described Samantha's symptoms and asked her if I should take her to minor emergency, she agreed that it sounded like the flu and advised that I bring her in on Monday morning if she wasn't any better.  We stayed home from church.  Samantha was very upset about that because she liked to get donuts before Sunday School in the fellowship hall.  I felt bad for her so loaded her up in the car and drove to the closest donut place to grab some to bring home.  That afternoon her father picked her up and I explained that she was pretty sick and didn't have an appetite.  That night he called and said he was in the ER with her becasue she started having trouble breathing.  They told him that she had pneumonia.  I left immediately to meet them there.  When I arrived, the pediatician on call said her left lung was filled with pneumonia and that they were going to mediflight her to the city.  I told them that didn't make sense becuase it was only a 20 minute drive.  She said that she didn't think she would make it that long.  I went into shock and can't remember a lot after that.   But I reassured her that everything was going to be okay before they put her on the helicopter and then drove as fast as I could to the hospital they were flying her to.  I actually beat the helicopter.  They gave her breathing treatments all night but couldn't get her oxygen level high enough.  The next day they decided to put her in a medically induced coma so that they could put her on a ventilator.  That started a series of events that led to her being put on one life support machine after another over the next two weeks.  They determined that she had strep pneumonia.  It was very treatable, but very aggressive.  They said it could take over a lung in a matter of hours.  Two days before we lost her, the lung was beginning to clear and there was air flow.  The life support machines had taken too much of a toll on her little body; however, and her vitals would drop dangerously low everytime they tried to wean her.  The night we lost her, they were changing the filter on her blood bypass machine and were going to take her off of it the next morning, one way or another.  During the procedure, she flatlined and they couldn't bring her back.  It was two weeks to the very day that she was admitted into the ER.
February 8, 2009
 
Moved to Heaven on February 8, 2009.
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