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Samantha M Menard September 7, 1990 ~February 22, 2004 |
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Samantha M Menard September 7, 1990 ~February 22, 2004 |
| EVERY MINUTE, EVERYDAY YOU'RE FOREVER ON MY MIND I AM FOREVER SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS THAT I KNOW I WILL NEVER FIND GOD PLEASE TELL ME WHY YOU TOOK MY LITTLE GIRL FROM ME SHE IS LOVED SO MUCH HERE WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SEE MY HEART IS FOREVER BREAKING AND NO ONE KNOWS MY PAIN I CAN'T CONCENTRATE IN MY LIFE NOW I FEEL I'M GOING INSANE I WISH I COULD OF TOLD HER EVERYTHING WOULD BE OK AND TO SIT AND WAIT FOR ME FOR WHEN ITS MY DAY Love Mommy
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Sammy's Story
Let me first start by
saying that this wasn't the first time she had meningitis. The first
time in 1997 she was 7 at the time was brought home by the principal of
her school so sick to her stomach. Mind you when she left that morning
she was fine. I kept an eye on her all day, she would sleep then wake up
and run to the bathroom. After a while I was worrying about her getting
dehydrated so I took her into emergency. After a couple hours she
started getting a sore neck so immediately they did a spinal tap, sure
enough it was meningitis. She spent 7 days in the hospital.
In 1999 one ninth I
heard my daughter crying I got up and found her on the bathroom floor
getting sick. I again panicked thinking the worse (meningitis). I again
brought her to the hospital where they diagnosed her with viral
meningitis for the second time. this time though we caught it early and
she only spent 3 days there and had to keep an IV line in her arm for
the next 3 days to get treatments.
The day before Samantha
passed away everything was fine, she had went with her grandpa to work
came home just before dinner. She had been up since early that morning.
I work midnights and this particular Saturday night I was going into
work for some overtime. Samantha had asked if she could go with me
because her sister had done it before. Finally I told her yes because
she wanted to prove to her older sister that she could stay up all night
and see what I do at work. Everything was going fine she was helping me
around the office and playing games on the computer. At around 5am she
started to get a really bad headache, mind you she has had a history of
migraines. I gave her a Tylenol and had her lay her head down on the
desk to relax. A little while later she started getting sick, and there
was no way that I could leave work till the next shift came in at 8 am.
I did what I could I made a bed for her with jackets on the floor and
she slept for a bit then woke up and got sick. I took Samantha home and
brought her to her room and laid her down. I told her to get some sleep
and if she still felt bad when she woke up I would take her in to the
hospital. Samantha had been up for close to 24 hours so I thought it was
probably from lack of sleep as she had never stayed up that long before.
I kept checking on her till I laid down on the couch to get a few winks
of sleep while my husband went skating. My oldest Chantel kept checking
to make sure she was alright this was around 1pm Sunday the 22nd of Feb.
When my husband Heath got home he went upstairs and went to check on her
and found her not breathing, that was the most horrifying yell I have
ever heard in my life was him telling her to wake up. I got on the phone
with 911 as my husband did CPR and waited for the ambulance. They worked
on her for what seemed like hours. They got her ready to be taken to the
hospital. A police officer too me there to sit and wait to see if they
could bring my little baby back. As soon as the doctor came in I knew
she was gone. The following day I was making arrangements for her
funeral which was ever harder then knowing she was gone. Later that
night we found out that it was bacterial meningitis which just tore me
apart even more because not once, but twice she had fought and won
against it and then all of a sudden with no one knowing she passed away
in her sleep. On Oct 6th 2004 I received the final report it was called
ACUTE PURULENT BACTERIAL MENINGITIS.
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Artist: Martina Mcbride |
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Samantha and her older sister Chantel. Samantha is the blonde with blue eyes. This picture was taken a few months before she passed away. Chantel misses her so much they were inseparable. |
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