The Story Of Her Short Life. Jennifer. <3

trish • 14 January 2012 at 9:11 PM

It feels like the right time, yet it doesn't. Her anniversary is coming up on the 16th. I feel like I should make her feel remembered. @jiffany


~NOVEMBER 2009~
From her best friend's MS Graduation Speech: 'One day, she didn't come to school. Jennifer usually wasn't sick, so I called her after school with a bunch of my friends to see if she was okay. She had pneumonia, and was in the hospital, but she assured me that she would be okay and back to school. We promised to tell her the homework every day so she wouldn't fall behind, and hoped she would be back soon.'
' She didn't come back. During winter break, I was texting her. Then my world came crashing down. She told me that she had a tumor, and would need surgery to remove it.'


(And I didn't live with my parents and her until she was diagnosed with Cancer. So I wouldn't be where I stand now without her.)

I'll keep posting these chapters of her life until January 16th. The last chapter.

syndrome • 14 January 2012 at 9:12 PM

Wow, thats sad.

rawrcookies08 • 14 January 2012 at 9:13 PM

I'm sorry about your friend ☹️

trish • 14 January 2012 at 9:14 PM

@rawrcookies08 she wasn't my friend. She was my sister.

Deleted • 14 January 2012 at 9:14 PM

☹️

Your sister☹️

rawrcookies08 • 14 January 2012 at 9:15 PM

@trish Oh my gosh ☹️ I'm sorry..

celeste • 14 January 2012 at 9:16 PM

@trish
I clicked on the topic because it had my name in it... I'm really sorry for your sister :c Even though I didn't know her, I can tell she was a very nice person.

pegasasu • 14 January 2012 at 9:17 PM

@trish

Oh my gosh I'm so sorry. It is wonderful that you're doing this.

unebra • 14 January 2012 at 9:19 PM

@trish

im so sorry :'( storys like these just make me ball my eyes out :'(

plushie • 14 January 2012 at 9:19 PM

Aww @Trish I heard that she died. ☹️ How old is she turning this year?

trish • 14 January 2012 at 9:24 PM

~DECEMBER/JANUARY~

Jennifer's best friends spent a long time making 1,000 Cranes and framing it for her. The story they based it on was 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes'. It was about a girl who was sick so she tried to fold a thousand origami cranes for good luck.


Remember. This was 6th grade.


____________________________________
@plushie The anniversary of her death. She turned 14 in September 26th, 2011.

plushie • 14 January 2012 at 9:26 PM

@Trish aww! She lived a really short life D:!

takaedakumi • 14 January 2012 at 9:27 PM

@trish I'm so sorry! It's so sad to know that things like this happen... D':

trish • 14 January 2012 at 9:51 PM

~JANUARY 2011~

EXCERPT FROM HER BEST FRIEND'S MS GRADUATION SPEECH: 'In 8th grade, she didn?t come back at all. I texted her as much as I could, sometimes even during class because it was the only time she was alert and able to text. Eventually, in January, I was called to the counseling office. As I walked from my class, I mentally ran through the list of things I had done in the past week or so, trying to figure out what someone had tried to rat me out for. When I got there, Ms. Law, Ms. Lepe, and another woman I had never seen before were there. I sat down, and was assured that I was not in trouble. I breathed a sigh of relief. The unfamiliar woman introduced herself as Jennifer?s social worker. She told me that she had talked to Jennifer, and that what she wanted most was to graduate with the rest of us. I started crying. She said she would wait until some other people came before continuing. One by one, Jennifer Li, Karla, Megan, and Anna came in. The social worker told them the situation. Eventually we all broke into tears. A plan was worked out; that after the long weekend we would go over to Jennifer?s house and have an honorary graduation ceremony for her there. I invited my friends over to my house on Saturday so that we could Jennifer another thousand cranes as a graduation gift. I asked the social worker if Jennifer would get better. She told me it was unlikely, and the doctors were just trying to give her as much time as they could.'

jazzyleia • 14 January 2012 at 9:56 PM

@trish

OMG im sooo sorry ☹️

whitefall • 14 January 2012 at 10:43 PM

@trish

I actually did know her and talked to her a few times.
Her death blew me away.
She was a really nice person.
I'm not even joking or saying what everyone else says by default.

She's gone,
But we can cherish her memories forever.
RIP Jennifer.

She was one of the people who welcomed me when I was a newbie.

trish • 16 January 2012 at 4:36 PM

~JANUARY 15th~
I was still sleeping, but at 5: 30 or 6: 30, my dad stormed into my room and threw our dog in and shouted, "The ambulance is coming! Jennifer is dying and she can't breathe!" Or something like that. But I didn't listen, I closed the door without my dog and rushed to my sister's room, where she lay there, purple to the fingernails. I touched her, I remember. But I soon had to leave because I know that if I stayed, I would get in the way of the ambulance. I held my dog in my room while I heard the footsteps and my dad repeating urgently all of Jennifer's information. They carried her out to the ambulance on a stretcher. And when they were outside, I carried my dog outside to see the ambulance leave, and my dad's car swiftly behind them. My mom was rushing to get dressed and get some calls in about Jennifer to my mom's sister, and called my aunt to come take care of me. She left in her car and it was only me and my dog now. My aunt soon came, and though it was Saturday very early in the morning, she asked if I wanted to go to school. I said, "It's Saturday. No school, but I would never want to go to school today to just break down."

Excerpt from her best friend's graduation speech: " It?s very hard, to see your best friend in a hospital bed, machines and tubes everywhere, a mask on her face." Yet she still had an mp3 player by her side.

whitefall • 16 January 2012 at 10:11 PM

;~;
This is so sad.

bubble_tree • 16 January 2012 at 10:19 PM

;~~~~;

My face is drenched in tears, my lips quivering with so much sadness. Just 14. And the thousand cranes. Those cranes told me that she still believed she could live, spending her life at her happiest. What kind of cancer was it, dare I ask?

trish • 17 January 2012 at 12:09 AM

~JANUARY 16TH~

It was 3:00-3:30 when my mom called. She, well, told me to pack up a few of Jennifer's clothes. I did. And well, I didn't know that she had passed yet. But she had at that moment. Only when I was at the Oakland Kaiser did I know she passed, because I saw her. Everyone was crying. Our oldest sister abruptly flew in from L.A. just to see Jennifer. My heart broke when they carried her out in a BAG. And then we all went home. My mom and dad were hardly home ever since then. They were planning her funeral. I was planning a speech. Jennifer's best friend was planning a speech for the funeral & her graduation. And what else? Jen passed only two days before when he would 'supposedly' graduate early.


And a year later, here we are. We speak and think of her daily. My mom and I visit her every Thursday.

And that's the last chapter.

phoenixfox • 17 January 2012 at 12:15 AM

@trish

I am so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you all. I pray for healing for you and your family. If you need anything, I'm here to lend a hand.

scarlettsong • 18 January 2012 at 7:34 PM

@trish

I'm so sorry for the loss of your sister. She died too young.

akira • 18 January 2012 at 7:39 PM

;~; Oh my, I'm so sorry

musicgurl333 • 18 January 2012 at 7:43 PM

@trish I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine how hard that would be for you and your family. She not really gone though, because she will live on forever in your memories. I'm sure she is watching over all of you from her place among the stars.

Deleted • 18 January 2012 at 8:08 PM

@trish
I think a piece of my heart just crumpled apart....

You know, they say when they say somebody dies that they go to Heaven. But you know what, first I think they stay on Earth for awhile. You may not have said a goodbye before her body died. But I think that before someone truly moves onto Heaven, they make it up to you, their soul stays back, to give the goodbye you deserve. I do t believe in ghosts, but I believe i do believe in souls. When I was young, I saw a soul. My family most likely didn't believe it, probably just went along with it, but I saw the soul, or spirit, whichever it was. Jennifer's soul was there, beside you and every person in your family, as soon as she took a final breath. She was there, a thousand paper cranes and a thousand tons of love urging her to just stay behind, just to give The goodbye she thought you all deserve....