Touching Story...

Subject: Touching Story... Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:56 am

6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death

When 6-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer, she began hiding hundreds of little love notes around the house for her parents to find after she was gone. Here’s the story:

Just before her sixth birthday, Elena Desserich (right) was diagnosed with brain cancer and given 135 days to live. She lived 255 days, passing away in 2007. After her death, Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith, found hundreds of notes from Elena hidden around the house — in between CD cases, between bookshelves, in dresser drawers, in backpacks….

"It just felt like a little hug from her, like she was telling us she was looking over us"

Elena left hundreds of notes like these:

Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith Desserich, have now published these notes in a book called Notes Left Behind to fund a non-profit organization The Cure Starts Now dedicated to fighting pediatric brain cancer.

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Wow that is awesome. Hundreds of little notes...

Subject: Re: Touching Story... Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:40 am

thats really cute. i bet her parents are always looking around the house in little crevices to see if there is anything else hidden around

Posts : 1813 Join date : 2009-09-21 Location : Chilliwack

That is SO special. What a wonderful gift that child left for her parents. I'm actually tearing up here....

Subject: Re: Touching Story... Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:27 pm

00Xtremeninja wrote:: thats really cute. i bet her parents are always looking around the house in little crevices to see if there is anything else hidden around

I saw a report on MSNBC on this as well, 2 years later they still managed to run into another note!

Subject: Re: Touching Story... Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:01 am

wow, this girl was all over the house with these things. really good insight for a 6-7 year old.

Subject: Re: Touching Story... Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:51 am

Imagine the well of emotions each one of these found notes must've caused. Such a gift provided by their daughter. They tried to hide the likely outcome from her, never once was she told by anyone that she was going to die, yet she knew so well the path she was travelling.

Subject: Re: Touching Story... Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:09 am

i am sure internally she knew. kids have some of the craziest intuition sometimes.

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