Hannah's Web Site

Celebrating Hannah's 3rd Birthday, July 18 2004



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.


Photos updated January 5, 2007.

Journal

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:31 PM EDT

Thanks to everyone who checked in and left messages last Friday on Hannah’s birthday (and every other day for that matter). In honour of that special day, I cut some sunflowers from the garden and took them to Libro. Cathy & I went to “Ribfest” in Sarnia after work. Actually, Cathy had most of the day off, but she did go along with the MP to the Suncor Ethanol plant for an important funding announcement.

Another rainy night tonight! We had a big storm with over 2 inches of rain at the farm. Cathy & I took a picture of a funnel cloud way up in the sky to the south. Hopefully no damage was done. We went for a nice walk at 9:30 tonight when things cleared up a bit.

Our corn and soybeans are looking great, and the rain will keep them growing. The wheat really needs to be harvested soon, but I guess we’ll have to wait for a few more days. Last night we went to work in the garden, hoping to catch up on some weeding. The ground was too wet for tilling, but Cathy picked a huge bag of green beans, a bag of lettuce and basil, and another bag of peas while Dad and I scouted the crops.

We took a trip to Baden and New Hamburg this past weekend for the Honderich family reunion. We met at the farm that has been in the Honderich family since 1825. It was great to see everyone again.

I can’t think of too many other activities. It took me a few days last week to recover from spending so many nights at Bayfest. I’m getting older you know. Cathy seems to take it all in stride.

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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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