Yesterday was Ashley's first day back at dance for the new dance season. Imagine our surprise when we were handed an envelope from the studio that did not contain a bill but a birthday card. This birthday card wasn't from the dance studio but from Randy and Sharon Miller. The mystery behind this card is that we do not know a Randy and Sharon Miller from Friendship, Wisconsin. If you are Randy and Sharon Miller, please send me a private email at laurie@cfl.rr.com. In the meantime, thank you for sending Ashley a birthday card. We really appreciate your thoughts of her special day.
“Although Ashley’s liver is failing, she isn’t sick enough to be placed on the liver transplant list. We were told that Ashley would need a new liver by the time she reaches puberty." Ashley was born at the end of July in 1998, but her story doesn’t start there;her story begins when she was just a little peanut in my womb. At 24 weeks gestation we learned we were having a girl, but our little girl had something wrong with her. Imagine sitting in the examining room, and the excitement of learning you are having a girl, then at the same time you hear the silence in the room when something is just not right with the baby. We were told that Ashley possibly had an ovarian cyst. It was normal and not to worry. But something told us it was more than just an ovarian cyst. As soon as Ashley was delivered she struggled to live. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck twice, and she was blue. Thankfully the doctor cut the cord immediately and although Ashley was still blue; she was b
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