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Rebecca E. Moon

by Phyllis Browning, Martinez, USA

Rebecca Erryn "Becca" Moon was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma Stage IV cancer 23 Apr 99. I remember that date as if we were having a very bad dream. We got the call at home from our daughter, who had taken Becca for an appointment, because she had been complaining of stomach pain for over two weeks and nothing was helping. Becca's ped had just seen her 10 days before and knew this was not like Becca either, so she ran the test, that brought our whole world down. We did the 5-day stay in the hospital from April 1999 - August 1999 because of the agressive chemo she had to take. In September we did radiation twice a day for two weeks, in October we did a Stem Cell Transplant that gave her a 40% chance of survial if we got to her one year anniversary.

Becca loved to sing, dance, swim, and tell jokes. We always had to check to see if she had been around grandpa when she started some of those jokes, because little ears listen very closely, and we didn't want her telling any of those jokes.

But, Becca was a caring child and loved everyone. She loved little ones the best, and her best friend Jordan. She always told us that they shared the same birthday and had been going to the same day care since they were 5-months old. This year would have been the first year that her and Jordan would have been separated, as they both were to start Kindergarten at different schools. It would have been the first year her mommy would have been away from her during the day too, as she worked at the day care. She always would ask her mommy when did they get paid, or lets take leave today if she was tired and didn't want to get up and get ready for school.

We had Becca 5-years to hug, kiss, laugh, and play with. She was the apple of our eyes, she was like our baby instead of her mom and dad. Until she got sick they would have to call us to see if she was ready to come home, or just force the issue and take her home so that they could spend time with her. During these past 18-months she would catch her mommy crying and say, "Are you worrying about me, mommy; I'll be ok." She would only cry when someone tried to do something new and didn't explain how they were going to do it, or if they weren't doing a procedure like someone else did it. She really kept the doctors and nurses on their feet on routine procedures and the way things were suppose to be done, if one of her favorite nurses told her, this is the correct and proper way. She heald their feet to the fire. When they thought she should be in bed resting, because of the drugs she had just gotten, or the surgery she had just gone through; she would be riding that crazy ! ! red bike down the halls of the ward with us atow with the IV pumps and lines, or jumping crazy like on the bed. The surgeon summed it all up in one statement, "It wouldn't be Becca, if she wasn't doing something out of the norm."

Just 24-hours before we lost her she was still singing Jesus Loves Me to the top of her lungs. They told us we had maybe two days or two weeks with her on the 4th of July. She had me make her Camp Rainbow Jungle outfit, she had us plan a Family Sunday Dinner for the hospital, she had us running around the hospital grounds pulling her in a little red wagon for three weeks.

We lost our little angel on 23 Jul 2000, Sunday at 5:30 A.M. with about 50 members from both sides of the family, and hospital staff singing, Jesus Loves Me. I know in my heart she is in a better place, but my heart and arms says, this is a bad dream and I need to wake up.

Childhood cancer kills our children everyday, and we need to join and fight the Medical Children's Hospitals to find cures for all the forms of cancer that take these little people so early in life.

I'll always have a part of my heart missing, because Becca was the light of my life.

Granny Browning, Martinez

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