: About Me

Today, I have a hero, she is my sister. Having been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in the summer of 2006, her doctors predicted a dark and treacherous path ahead for the little one. Melissa was not predicted to live past her twelfth birthday. Several surgeries, and countless exhausting physical therapy sessions, later the local doctors gave up, claiming nothing more could be done. Melissa became reclusive, and depressed; an eleven year old left with the thoughts and questions of death. What would it feel like to go, why had she been chosen when so many other bad children live in th...