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louis hofstad <lhofstad@yahoo.com>
rosemount, mn usa - Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:35 PM CST

Happy 18th Birthday, Priyanka! Thinking of you.
Esha
- Saturday, February 2, 2013 5:22 PM CST

Happy Birthday, dear Priyanka.
Vandana
MN, MN USA - Friday, February 1, 2013 10:03 AM CST

Hello Leela and Priyanka,

Thinking of you.

Love,

Vandana
- Monday, December 10, 2012 2:12 PM CST

Leela,

I just want to say that was very cool of you that you started the Child Life Center in the honor of Priyanka in India.

Priyanka always have and always will be in my thoughts.

A lots of love,
Sam, Max's sister <samantha.siedschlag@gallaudet.edu>
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009 0:54 AM CST

Happy birthday priyanka! we love you and miss you.

Esha <desigurl89@gmail.com>
Plymouth, MN United States - Saturday, February 2, 2008 9:18 PM CST

Happy birthday, Priya.. thinking of you always!
Shruti Rangnekar
- Saturday, February 2, 2008 8:17 PM CST

Dearest Leela,

I am so happy for you for having started the first childlife center in India. It will make a big difference in so many childrens life. Just to see a smile on these childrens faces, brings about so much satisfaction.

Kudos to you for fulfilling Priyanka's dream and bringing happiness to so many children and their families! Wishing your foundation the very best!

Love,
Amu.

Laxmi Nayak <laxminayak@email.com>
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 8:52 PM CST

Leela,

I am so proud of you & what you have accomplished by launching the Priyanka Child Life Services Center. You have turned personal tragedy into a blessing for countless others - you are an inspiration to all of us.
Jackie Gates <jlsgates@yahoo.com>
Crystal, MN USA - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:35 AM CDT

Leela,

Well you've done it! Congratulations on your inaugurating the Priyanka Child Life Care Services in Manipal, India. As you know, Ravi and I stand ready to help you in your new and exciting endeavor.
Padma <padmachin@yahoo.com>
Minnetonka, MN USA - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:26 AM CDT

Dear Leela,

I have been thinking about you and Priyanka. I just had to let you know.

Kavita
Kavita Bantwal Naimpally <anaimpa@charter.net>
Apple Valley, MN USA - Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:57 AM CDT

Leela:

I ran into you recently at Target when I was with my mother-in-law. I think of Priyanka often and the gifts that she gave to everyone in Mrs. Bracke's classroom that year. Jacob will always remember her and we will always think of her beautiful gentle but fighting spirit. My thoughts and prayers are with you as a mother. Stephanie Sargent (Bernstein)
Stephanie Sargent <sssmn@comcast.net>
Minnetonka, MN USA - Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:47 PM CDT

Hello Leela,
Thinking about you & Priyanka.
Lakshmi & Aditi <Lakshmi_nandyal@hotmail.com>
Eden Prairie, MN - Monday, September 24, 2007 9:54 AM CDT

I have been thinking a lot about Priyanka, with her anniversary date and that we are leaving for Paris in a week. I will be thinking of you both on our trip. You are never far from our thoughts or our hearts!
Jacqui, Aaron, Evan, Dominic and Angel Katja <j_sufka@yahoo.com>
- Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:39 AM CDT

Hey Priyu,
Thought of you a lot today. I still remember those lovely eyes and your smile! Not a day goes by when i don't think of you and feel a heaviness in my heart!
I wish you could see Nidhi today..she reminds us all of you. I'm sure you can see her too! Miss you very much!
((((HUGS)))) and Umaaaaahs!

-Amupacchi
Laxmi Nayak
sunnyvale, Ca - Wednesday, April 25, 2007 0:39 AM CDT

Hi Leela,
Just wanted you to know we were thinking of you and Priyanka yesterday. You are often in my thoughts but especially so on those most important days. Hugs to you,
Cari Holt <cari_holt@hotmail.com caringbridge.org/mn/ryanholt>
Buffalo, MN US - Saturday, February 3, 2007 6:05 AM CST

Priyanka, remembering you today. Wherever you are, I want you to know that not a day passes by without thinking of you. For me you are always there close by, across my bed. We love you.
anita mhave <anitashenoy3@rediffmail.com>
mumbai, india - Saturday, February 3, 2007 1:11 AM CST

Leela,
This was recently left on our web page and I thought it was very well written. I wanted to share it with you and anyone who reads your site.

The Gap

The gap between those who have lost children and those who have not is profoundly difficult to bridge. No one, whose children are well and intact can be expected to understand what parents who have lost children have absorbed and what they bear. Our children come to us through every blade of grass, every crack in the sidewalk, every bowl of breakfast cereal. We seek contact with their atoms, their hairbrush, their toothbrush, their clothing. We reach for what was integrally woven into the fabric of our lives, now torn and shredded.
A black hole has been blown through our souls and, indeed, it often does not allow the light to escape. It is a difficult place. For us to enter there is to be cut deeply, and torn anew, each time we go there, by the jagged edges of our loss. Yet we return, again and again, for that is where our children now reside. This will be so for years to come and it will change us profoundly. At some point in the distant future, the edges of that hole will have tempered and softened but the empty space will remain - a life sentence.
Our friends will change through this. There is no avoiding it. We grieve for our children, in part, through talking about them and our feelings for having lost them. Some go there with us, others cannot and through their denial and a further measure, however unwittingly, to an already heavy burden. Assuming that we may be feeling "better" six months later is simply "to not get it." The excruciating and isolating reality that bereaved parents feel is hermetically sealed from the nature of any other human experience. Thus it is a trap - those whose compassion and insight we most need are those for whom we abhor the experience that would allow them that sensitivity and capacity. And yet, somehow there are those, each in their own fashion, who have found a way to reach us and stay, to our comfort. They have understood, again each in their own way, that our children remain our children through our memory of them. Their memory is sustained through speaking about them and our feelings about their death. Deny this and you deny their life. Deny their life and you no longer have a place in ours.
We recognize that we have moved to an emotional place where it is often very difficult to reach us. Our attempts to be normal are painful and the day to day carries a silent, screaming anguish that accompanies us, sometimes from moment to moment. Were we to give it its own voice we fear we would become truly unreachable, and so we remain "strong" for a host of reasons even as the strength saps our energy and drains our will. Were we to act out our true feelings we would be impossible to be with. We resent having to act normal, yet we dare not do otherwise. People who understand this dynamic are our gold standard. Working our way through this over the years will change us as does every experience - and extreme experience changes one extremely. We know we will have recovered when, as we have read, it is no longer so painful to be normal. We do not know who we will be at that point or who will still be with us.
We have read that the gap is so difficult that, often, bereaved parents must attempt to reach out to friends and relatives or risk losing them. This is our attempt. For those untarnished by such events, who wish to know in some way what they, thankfully, do not know, read this. It may provide a window that is helpful for both sides of the gap.

By
Michael Crenlinsten
Jacqui Sufka <j_sufka@yahoo.com>
St. Cloud, MN - Sunday, November 26, 2006 2:00 PM CST

Leela Auntie,

Sorry for the delayed message, I have been busy. I cannot believe 3 years have gone by. We still remember and miss dear little Priyanka, and we hope you are doing ok

Love,
Esha <desigurl89@gmail.com>
plymouth, mn - Monday, September 25, 2006 6:03 PM CDT

Leela, Nihal...

Thinking of you and your beautiful Priyanka.

Will call when we get back in town.

Love,
Stacy
Stacy <slzpub@yahoo.com>
- Monday, August 28, 2006 10:08 PM CDT

We think of you more and more at your anniversary and our upcoming anniversary date. We know our perfect angels are happily playing cancer free!
Aaron,Jacqui and Evan Sufka (and angel Katja) <sufkaaron@yahoo.com>
St. Cloud, MN USA - Monday, August 28, 2006 10:02 AM CDT

happy belated b-day! hope the family is doing ok.
tak ecare
Robyn mom to Nicole and angel PJ
www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicole

RW
Petawawa, Ontario (Canada), - Sunday, February 5, 2006 8:04 AM CST

Priya, another year has gone by.. and I still miss you just as much. Happy birthday, sweetie!
Shruti <ranipigtails13@gmail.com>
Minneapolis, MN USA - Thursday, February 2, 2006 9:26 PM CST

Happy birthday priyanka! We love you and miss you.
Esha <desigurl89@gmail.com>
Plymouth, MN - Thursday, February 2, 2006 4:18 PM CST

My dear Leela. I think of you often. Please call me when you have a chance - I can't seem to find your phone number - or send an email with your phone no. Hope you and Nihal are doing well.
Mumtaz <mwalliware@aol.com>
Eagan, - Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:49 PM CST

Thinking of all of you during this holiday season. May you feel Priya's love all around you.

Sending continued prayers of peace...
Terry Snyder (Angel Jalen's "Am-Maw") http://www.caringbridge.org/fl/jalen <vix207@aol.com>
Royal Palm Beach, FL - Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:29 AM CST

Priya, missing you as always. I can't believe another year has gone by already. It just isn't the same without you around... I miss you with all my heart.

Love, Shruti <ranipigtails13@gmail.com>
London, UK - Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:55 AM CDT

Dear Leela Auntie and Nihal,
I cannot believe our little princess has been gone one more year. It still feels like yesterday, when she was running around and playing. We miss you and love you, Priya, and you are an inspiration to us all.
Lots of Love,
Esha <desigurl89@gmail.com>
Plymouth, MN - Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:52 AM CDT

Leela and Nihal,
We are praying with you to have the strength to endure the pain you must be experiencing.
Lots of love,
Vidya
Vidya
Minnetonka, MN - Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:52 AM CDT

Leela Auntie and Priya,
Just thinking of you and seeing how you are doing. I miss you, Priyanka.
Love,
Esha <desigurl89@gmail.com>
Plymouth, MN USA - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:05 PM CDT

Thinking of you, Priyanka and Leela
Sammy <samanthas@tmail.com>
- Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:26 PM CDT

Leela and Priyanka,

Thinking of you. Hope you are having a good day.
Padma
Minnetonka, MN - Monday, April 18, 2005 3:12 PM CDT

Leela,
Thinking of you and Pri. Hope to read you again soon.

with love, <Deirdre40@frontiernet.net>
- Friday, March 4, 2005 8:40 AM CST

Janamdin Mubaraq Priyanka!

Love Alison
alison guthrie <aguthrie@mn.rr.com>
Minneapolis, MN USA - Friday, February 4, 2005 4:26 PM CST

Dear Priyanka,

I am so sorry I was late in wishing you a happy birthday.
I have been with my Mom at the Mayo Clinic since Tuesday.
I think of you, and your beautiful smile often and wish you were here.

Victoria
Victoria <vlj322@mn.rr.com - www.caringbridge.org/mn/gabesjourney>
mpls, MN - Friday, February 4, 2005 8:26 AM CST

Happy Birthday Priyanka! I hope you had a huge party in Heaven and Katja celebrated with you. Maybe you could teach her to play chess, she if very good at games. We miss you beautiful girl.
LOL, Jacqui <j_sufka@yahoo.com>
St. Cloud, MN - Thursday, February 3, 2005 4:05 PM CST

Happy birthday, Priya. I love you and i miss you. I think about you every day. I know that you are watching over all of us. You're my hero.

Shruti Rangnekar <ranipigtails13@gmail.com>
Plymouth, MN USA - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 10:52 PM CST

Priya,
You may not be with us anymore, but I know you can still see this. Happy Birthday!We love you and miss you.

love always,

Esha <desigurl89@comcast.net>
Plymouth, MN - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 5:23 PM CST

I had no idea, today was a painful day I'm sure. God bless you for thinking of others as you are in so much pain. Still here, praying for peace.

with love <Deirdre40@frontiernet.net>
- Wednesday, February 2, 2005 3:24 PM CST

Leela - I just want you to know you are in my heart and thoughts. Hope this year brings you comfort and peace.
Mumtaz <mwalliware@aol.com>
EagaN, MN - Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:17 AM CST

Happy new year to all of you, know that we are always here for you. Priya, we know you are watching over us. We love you, and we miss you everyday.
Shruti <ranipigtails13@hotmail.com>
Plymouth, MN USA - Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:51 AM CST

Leela,
Stopping by to say hi. I'm sure the holidays were awful and I was thinking about you. My e-mail has changed. Take care sweet lady.

with love <Deirdre40@frontiernet.net>
- Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:52 PM CST

Thinking of you and your precious angel this new year...God Bless.

~*~*Girlie's Page*~*~

Love & hugs,
XOXOXOXOXOXO
Janice <janiceliew1981@yahoo.com>
Melbourne, Australia - Thursday, January 6, 2005 4:31 AM CST

Dear Leela,
Hope this new year brings you comfort and peace.

supreet <supreet_deshpande@yahoo.com>
- Monday, January 3, 2005 8:22 PM CST

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