Our very good family friend returned home on January 24,2013. Gail was the first one other then my parents to hold me when I was born. She and Mike have been Mom and Dad #2. If Mormons did the whole God Parents thing they would be my God Parents. She has been there for me my whole life. We got to see her one last time in May 2011 when they surprised me and my sibling in Florida when we were on our family vacation there. Shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer. We were told it was a form of cancer that kids usually get and they usually can pull out of it but adults usually have a harder time with it. It did go into remission for a short time but came back with a vengeance. She had already beaten breast cancer years before that. She had a lot of complications this time around and spent the last 6 months in and out of hospitals and finally in pretty much ICU because the chemo wiped out her immune system. She got MRSA and almost had to have a leg amputated. The final blow was a chest cold that very quickly turned into 2 different kids of pneumonia that ended up taking her life. She fought a good fight and hung on as long as she could. God had other plans for her. She is already greatly missed. Its weird to think she is not around. I keep wanting to pick up the phone and call her but she is not there. Mike is going to have to deal with my phone calls now!! I hope he gabs as much as she did!! Thank you Gail for being such an amazing person and mom #2! Thanks for yelling at Mike every time he tried to put me up a tree! Thank you for spoiling me for all those years and bringing me grocery shopping so I could keep Mike entertained and getting henna tattoos and being your goofy self! I love you and miss you. We will see you again one day.
