"You will truly be missed" "God made us sisters chance made us friends"

This light house is for my sister Angel, I hope it helps you find your way home!

This weeks blog is hard for me to write so it will probably be short. I lost my best friend and sister on Sunday from an unknown source of infection that caused her to go into septic shock. I am really devastated. She was a truly amazing woman!! Her ENTIRE life she struggled with illnesses most of them caused from unknown sources and most of them rare and almost unheard of, yet she had such a zest for life and lived everyday like it was her last.

She had a 9 year battle with a disease called Primary Biliary sclerosis that destroyed her liver and put her into a coma several times. She was very fortunate that she was able to get a liver transplant that blessed us all with her life for another 3 years. In between that 3 years she battled 3 bouts of sepsis, liver rejection, a blood disorder and a multitude of other rare but serious side effects, but still she trudged on with a positive attitude and a strong heart. I believe that most of her strength came from her son whom she adored. It was just the two of them battling the world!

I think I might write a book for her one day to tell the world about her her many miraculous defeats and triumphs but for today I am just going to remember and Thank God for the time he gave us with her. Her exact words were always "Everyday is a gift from God"

Until next time, God bless! (The service info will be in the Thursday Cleveland Plain Dealer under Angela Cooper-Rygiel.)