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After a long, hard fight Jenn has left us here and gone home to be with the Lord! She had a great day Saturday. We were beginning to think it had all gotten better and she was headed in the right direction. I knew she was still critical, but was clinging to that chance of survival!!!
I had gone home for the night and woke up to a call from my Mom. She was calling to tell me the bleeding had started again. I tried to get out of the house before my kids got up...and there came Seeger with a card in his hand. Not long after he woke up, Cooper came in with a card too. I hated leaving my boys again, but Jenn needed me more. She couldn't be with her boys for Mother's Day. I felt like the right place to be was with her.
Dr. Meyer called us in for another meeting to discuss the options. He said we could take her in for surgery to do a hysterectomy and try to find the source of bleeding, or let her go now. Just the day before we were told if she started to bleed it was over. Then the day before that we were told if she started clotting it was over.....
Surgery sounded like a no brainer until we heard the details. Dr. Meyer was honest and said there was no guarantee it would be successful. And wait, she's already bleeding and on blood thinners, it's not a good idea to do surgery in her state. This was uncharted territory for them. NO ONE KNEW WHAT TO OR NOT TO DO!!!
After hearing all of her immediate family give their opinion we decided as a family to let her go. She put up a hard fight. In my mind though, she was not some science experiment. She needed to go with some dignity! She tried hard, but ultimately God won her over.
We all said our good-byes to her and the immediate family watched over her as she left this temporary home. It was the hardest thing I have EVER watched! I wouldn't have traded it for the world though. I needed to see her go and she would've done the same for me! Within what seemed like eternity, she passed away. The amazing staff cleaned her up and let us see her unhooked from all the machines and tubes for one last time. She looked so peaceful. Still that same beautiful sister I will always remember!
We left the hospital and headed to her house. Someone had to tell Conner (7) about his mommy. Jenn's husband and Dad spoke to him in private. Before they told him Conner said, "I dreamed mommy came home and it was so real!" WOW!!! Every bit of me can't stop thinking that Jenn was telling him she was leaving. She was going home...to the KINGDOM!!! Conner was sad when they told him, wanting to be left alone. He ran into the playroom and curled up in a ball crying. How sad!
I looked through some old pictures of hers last night. Ones she had in boxes at her house. If I can offer any advice to anyone...it's to take more pictures with your family. There were tons of pics with her friends, but very few with our family. You never think to take them with your family because you see them all the time. Please stop to take a picture of your family together on a regular basis. I'd give anything to have a recent pic of us together!
Now we begin planning a funeral for a 28 year old wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend that was perfectly healthy before this started. She is a mystery diagnosis. No one knows exactly what happened or why it all started. We can speculate, but what good is that? All that matters now is that she is not broken or weak, but instead in the best place anyone should ever want to be. In the arms of Jesus! Arrangements have not been confirmed at this time.
Thank you to everyone that stuck by us during this difficult time. Thanks for the prayers, blood donors, food, drinks, snacks, sweet texts, emails, and phone calls. I am honored to be a member of a wonderful church. I am humbled by the amount of love shown to my family and I. God has great plans for my family. Stirrings of The Holy Spirit working in family I didn't think would have those feelings. Even amidst the loss and devestation of Jenn's passing, we still give God ALL the glory!
How Great Thou Art:
When Christ shall come,
With shouts of acclamation,
And take me home,
What joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow
In humble adoration
And there proclaim,
"My God, how great Thou art!"
In loving memory of Jennifer-Conners Mommie +2
♥ gone but never forgotten 10.23.83-5.13.12♥
In loving Memory of Rachel Pauba Simons
♥1.6.86-8.24.12♥
In Loving Memory of Tank 5.5.05-8.2010 his brother Anubis 5.5.05-10.30.12 and Callie 10.1.00-9.23.12
Still so hard to believe this actually happened. It's just so unfair that such a beautiful person was taken away. I hope her family can get through this as much as one can.
oh my god. i just cannot get my head around that this has actually happened. I cant stop crying for those 3 boys. Jenn just adored them, they were her world. I just hope and pray that they will be able to remember her and will always feel how much love she had for them.
I still can't believe it happened, I was talking to her when she was in the hospital before she was put into the ICU/PCU. I am praying for her family for strength during this horrible time in their lives, to give them the strentgh to continue living and remember Jenn as the wonderful loving wife and mother that she was.
thanks for sharing this, I still can't believe she's gone, it just doesn't seem real, doesn't seem fair.
Poor Connor, I hope he tells his brothers how amazing she was.
thanks for sharing this, I still can't believe she's gone, it just doesn't seem real, doesn't seem fair.
Poor Connor, I hope he tells his brothers how amazing she was.
Yes! I hope that little guy has the strength to always know his mommy and to make sure his brothers know how much they all were loved.
I can't even believe this happened....I am in total shock. Her poor family.... I don't even know what to say. My thoughts are with everyone during this time. So not what I was hoping to see when I got on here today.
That is so very sad. I am just devastated. I haven't stopped crying all day. I can't begin to imagine the pain her family, especially her husband and kids, must be going through. That part about Conner broke my heart I don't understand why it happened. I just wish it was all a cruel joke and she'll be back on here smiling and with her LOL's like she normally was. So heart-breaking beyond words
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praying so hard for her family. i am so sad for everyone
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Thank you *Kiliki*! 
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