celebrate stacy, fight als

i have had a heavy heart this past week.

do you have any friends that end up being more like family?

we have a group of friends like that...

we have grown up together.

our grandparents were friends...

our parents are friends...

so we are friends...

last week my beautiful friend-more-like-family 

Stacy passed away.

(that is hard to type bc it still seems unreal.)

she battled ALS 

(Lou Gherig's Disease)

for almost a year...

 

my heart is broken...

broken for the friend we lost,

broken for her husband,

broken for her mother and sister,

broken for her aunts, uncles, cousins,

broken for our other friends-more-like-family, 

broken for so many people she touched...

i will be walking in the local ALS walk

in April 2011

and every year after that...

i will walk bc i can.

i will walk for stacy,

for her dad, "uncle" jimmy,

(he lost his battle with als 14 years ago)

and for all those i do not know 

that fight this disease...