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^Angel^ in Heaven
Abigail Anne Rose Ortiz
6-14-95 to 3-12-04

Welcome to Abigail's Web Page. It has been created to help keep family and friends updated on her courageous battle against
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.
Diagnosed with AML M2 (with CNS involvement) on 15 Aug 2000. Remission on 28 September 2000. Sepsis 10 December 2000 - December 25 2001. Completed Chemotherapy on 7 January 2001. Relapsed on 27 November 2001. Bone Marrow Transplant with Mom Suzanne as the donor on 21 December 2001 at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), Houston, Texas. Gallbladder removed on February 12, 2002. Spent 3 months in Bone Marrow Unit. Home on 5 April 2002. After indications of her graft failing, received a CD34+ enriched donor stem cell infusion 25 June 2002 in Houston. Returned once again to Houston for a Submyeloablative Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant on 5 September 2002 to aggressively treat yet more indications of graft failure and reestablish her donor marrow. After a year, once again developed graft failure. In Houston for another Bone Marrow Transplant with a Matched Unrelated Donor on 23 January 2004.

Passed into the hands of the Lord on 12 March 2004.

Journal

Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:32 PM CDT

Dear Family & Friends:

First, thank you for coming to Abby's website. Thank you for signing the Guestbook. As you know today is the 5th anniversary of our beloved Abigail's death. It seems like yesterday yet it also seems like a hundred years have passed. Time doesn't make it any easier. She will always be missed. As long as I live, I shall grieve her passing.

Today Bert & I have received a lot of wonderful messages in this guestbook, phones calls, cards, emails and gifts that memorialize her life. I can't thank you enough. Abigail will live on through you. I sometimes wonder how many lives she touched and continues to touch. Like ripples in a pond, I have no idea how far they reach out.

If I can put aside the agony of my grief and look at the time I had with Abigail, I have come to the conclusion that we had a ball together. I loved & enjoyed her so much. We had a great time together.

I do believe that the soul lives on after we die, so I know that someday Bert, Abby & I will be reunited.

God bless you and keep you.
Love Always,
Mommy Suzanne

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Hospital Information:

Patient Room:
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Links:

http://www.quietcovemusic.com/music.htm   Scroll down to Abby's Song. Abigail's wonderful friend Dave Edwards' beautiful song written for her before her first transplant. Thanks Dave!

http://kellycountry2002.homestead.com/Index.html   Our friend Nancy who has so much to teach each one of us.

http://www.makeachildsmile.org/2001/prev_2001_jan3.shtml   Click on

E-mail Author: ltbert@aol.com

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