Carleigh's service was on April 11, 2000, at 2 p.m., at The First United Methodist Church.
The words of the songs you are getting ready to read are the ones that were played at her funeral.
The Life of An Angel: Carleigh Lauryn Grace
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Showing posts with label our little angel. Show all posts
4/11/2000
On Monday, November 8, 1999, a beautiful angel entered our lives. Actually, she was in our lives sooner, for she was in my tummy for nine precious months.
Carleigh gained her angel wings on Saturday, April 8, 2000. She was exactly five months old. We asked God for five minutes with Carleigh, and He blessed us with five glorious months.
On Tuesday, April 11, we laid Carleigh's body to rest. We chose a beautiful place for her, in the shade of a beautiful pine tree. We planned her service in hopes that it was all that she would have wanted it to be.
Carleigh, we love you and we miss you so much. We look forward to the day that we can hold you in our arms again.
All our love forever,
Mommy, Daddy, and B
We have had numerous friends, local and Internet who have asked us if we have set up a memorial fund for Carleigh.
Please send your donations to Community Hospice of America.
Had it not been for our nurses, Reah, Bunnie, Miranda, and Lynn, and all our other friends at Hospice, Carleigh would have never gotten to come home and be with us.
We will be forever grateful for the care they gave Carleigh during her first month of life.
If you send a gift, PLEASE make sure you give your name and be sure to tell them it is in memory of Carleigh. Thank you!
There is so much more for me to say about my sweet baby. Now that I have laid her to rest, I can finish what I was meant to do. Please keep checking back, as Carleigh's Legacy will live on forever in our hearts and through this site.
Andrea (Carleigh's Mommy)
Carleigh gained her angel wings on Saturday, April 8, 2000. She was exactly five months old. We asked God for five minutes with Carleigh, and He blessed us with five glorious months.
On Tuesday, April 11, we laid Carleigh's body to rest. We chose a beautiful place for her, in the shade of a beautiful pine tree. We planned her service in hopes that it was all that she would have wanted it to be.
Carleigh, we love you and we miss you so much. We look forward to the day that we can hold you in our arms again.
All our love forever,
Mommy, Daddy, and B
We have had numerous friends, local and Internet who have asked us if we have set up a memorial fund for Carleigh.
Please send your donations to Community Hospice of America.
Had it not been for our nurses, Reah, Bunnie, Miranda, and Lynn, and all our other friends at Hospice, Carleigh would have never gotten to come home and be with us.
We will be forever grateful for the care they gave Carleigh during her first month of life.
If you send a gift, PLEASE make sure you give your name and be sure to tell them it is in memory of Carleigh. Thank you!
There is so much more for me to say about my sweet baby. Now that I have laid her to rest, I can finish what I was meant to do. Please keep checking back, as Carleigh's Legacy will live on forever in our hearts and through this site.
Andrea (Carleigh's Mommy)
4/08/2000
This morning, April 8, 2000, at 5:35 a.m., my precious angel, Carleigh Lauryn Grace grabbed her wings and flew off to Heaven to be with her angel friends. She was exactly 5 months old. My heart is broken, that's all I can say. I am in a daze and I'm not ready to go on with my life. I live only for my son, not for myself.
On my way to the hospital last night, John called and said they had agreed to transfer her to St. Louis on Saturday morning (today). When I got there, she was doing so well. She was saturating 100% and breathing better than I had ever seen her breathe. She was so comfortable.
I guess you could say it was the calm before the storm, because things started changing for the worse. I had dozed off and was awakened to nurses saying that they couldn't get the saturation monitor to pick her up. She looked very uncomfortable and I scooped her up and held her. The nurses kept commenting on how they knew she didn't like for them to mess with her. She was fighting them with every ounce of energy she had. I told John that she was going to fly away, I could tell.
They moved her to PICU at about 3 a.m. They were bagging her and suctioning crud out of her. She had such poor muscle tone that she couldn't clear secretions like we can. The doctor pulled us aside to tell us the news. We had to make a choice - let Carleigh fly away, or let the doctor intubate her and let her be forever bound to a ventilator, the hospital, and pain. It was the hardest decision we have had to make in our lives. We never expected to have to choose - we thought God would just take her quickly.
It became apparent to us what we should do when we looked into that sweet little face. She was so tired and we knew that she wanted to go. They bagged her until we could get her brother brought to the hospital. We let him see her one last time - he still doesn't understand really what's going on. They gave her some medicine so she wouldn't feel pain and I held her close and sang to her until she slipped away.
I can honestly say that I held an angel. I actually felt her fly out of my arms. I was amazingly calm when it happened, though now I am literally falling apart.
Thank you for all the times you have prayed for us. I am working on Carleigh's website. Please keep checking in for something new. I have to make it wonderful to do her justice, because she is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me.
On my way to the hospital last night, John called and said they had agreed to transfer her to St. Louis on Saturday morning (today). When I got there, she was doing so well. She was saturating 100% and breathing better than I had ever seen her breathe. She was so comfortable.
I guess you could say it was the calm before the storm, because things started changing for the worse. I had dozed off and was awakened to nurses saying that they couldn't get the saturation monitor to pick her up. She looked very uncomfortable and I scooped her up and held her. The nurses kept commenting on how they knew she didn't like for them to mess with her. She was fighting them with every ounce of energy she had. I told John that she was going to fly away, I could tell.
They moved her to PICU at about 3 a.m. They were bagging her and suctioning crud out of her. She had such poor muscle tone that she couldn't clear secretions like we can. The doctor pulled us aside to tell us the news. We had to make a choice - let Carleigh fly away, or let the doctor intubate her and let her be forever bound to a ventilator, the hospital, and pain. It was the hardest decision we have had to make in our lives. We never expected to have to choose - we thought God would just take her quickly.
It became apparent to us what we should do when we looked into that sweet little face. She was so tired and we knew that she wanted to go. They bagged her until we could get her brother brought to the hospital. We let him see her one last time - he still doesn't understand really what's going on. They gave her some medicine so she wouldn't feel pain and I held her close and sang to her until she slipped away.
I can honestly say that I held an angel. I actually felt her fly out of my arms. I was amazingly calm when it happened, though now I am literally falling apart.
Thank you for all the times you have prayed for us. I am working on Carleigh's website. Please keep checking in for something new. I have to make it wonderful to do her justice, because she is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me.