Aunt Janet

Our Aunt Janet turned 50 just over a month ago. She spent her birthday in the hospital, recovering from a gangrened-apendectomy. The doctors were amazed at her miraculous recovery; they said things would get worse before they got better and gave her a button to press for pain relief, but she never used it. She felt little to no pain and was back at work in no time! This past Saturday, we had a birthday party for Joanna and Daddy (who unfortunately had to work) and Aunt Janet was so happy, as happy as I've ever seen her.
The next morning, around 6:15, she was taking a shower and collapsed. Later, we found out it was a cardiac arythmia which caused her to pass out and led to cardiac arrest. She stopped breathing for 15 minutes until the paramedics got there. Her heart and lungs were doing okay under the circumstances, but due to lack of oxygen for so long, there was major damage done to her brain stem. After three EEG's (one with a sedative, one weaning her off the sedative, and one completely off the sedative), all with the same results, it was said that she had no brain activity. She passed away Thursday morning around 7:30. She always had touch-and-go heart problems, and had been diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure, but to happen so suddenly was (and still is) completely mind-blowing.
She taught high school math for 29 years, most of those at Chamberlain High School. She was always ready to help us with schoolwork, math or otherwise. Have a paper to do and don't know how to go about starting it? "Just do it. Get it done." And she always told the best stories! I don't know what else to write about her, other than it was too soon for her to go; there was so much more that we were going to do!

We love you Aunt Janet! We miss you so much, but we know you're happy in Heaven and we will see you again!

((The picture was taken Saturday night at the party, with Aunt Loraine in the background))