Hannah's Web Site

Doesn't she look like she is up to something?



Welcome to Hannah's Web Page.
Hannah Jayne Catherine Young was born on July 18, 2001.

On June 28th, 2002, at 11 months old, Hannah was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). She was immediately admitted to the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario for treatment. She received chemotherapy over the next 10 months, and finished the standard protocol in April of 2003. We enjoyed 3 months at home, but Hannah relapsed with leukemia in July 2003, the day before her second birthday.

Luckily, an unrelated stem cell donor was found ? a perfect 10 out of 10 match. Hannah spent over a year in hospital recovering from her stem cell transplant. Throughout that time she continued to fill our days with laughter, and amaze us with her courage and strength despite the experience she had endured.

Hannah earned her angel spirit on Feb 3, 2005.
We miss her every day.


Spring pictures updated April 2009.

Journal

Monday, May 18, 2009 10:25 PM EDT

Hello again, and happy Victoria Day. We stayed around home this weekend to work in the garden and on the farm. Cathy painted a closet in the laundry room and made a big pot of soup. I picked up a big trailer load of mulch for under our cedar trees. Last week was rainy again, and we haven’t been able to get any planting done yet. It is starting to get late for corn, but he weather forecast for next week looks good. It will still take a couple days for things to dry out here.

Cathy is working on some plans for renovating our kitchen. Nothing major, but it needs a facelift. With the help of many “consultants”, we have some great ideas now. We’ll keep you posted as we make progress.

We typed up an entry last week, but didn’t get around to posting it. Here’s what we were doing over the last month.

Sunday May 10, 2009

How could a month go by so quickly? The last entry was Easter weekend, and now we are celebrating Mother’s Day.

We had a great Mother’s Day weekend. Cathy’s mom and sister came to visit for the weekend. They did some shopping and we had a nice dinner on Saturday night with my folks. Today we went to church and had lunch at Reece’s Corners.

We haven’t been away since Easter weekend. We’ve had lots of work to do getting ready for the spring planting and gardening season.

Now we are getting busy with yard work. It has been hard to keep up with the grass because we are getting a lot of rain. We still don’t have any crops planted yet. I started cultivating a field on Thursday, but it rained in the afternoon. On Friday after work I started cultivating again, and it poured. We had a bit more rain on Saturday morning, so I think it will be almost a week before things dry out again.

Hannah’s memory continues to inspire us to do a bit extra to make the world a better place. We have been donating Hannah’s clothes and toys to people and organizations when we recognize a need. I was able to donate some blood last week. We always appreciated when Hannah received blood and when people were thoughtful enough to send her a gift. Thanks to everyone for your support!

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Hospital Information:

Finally at home!!
John & Cathy Young, RR # 2 Camlachie
Ontario, N0N 1E0

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E-mail Author: jcyoung@sympatico.ca

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