A Tragic Week-End For A Brave Heart

As my BraveHeart Sisters were congratulating me on My New You Journey and I was being blessed to start on another year... my mind was really far away thinking on my sister with a brave heart who was about to lose her second son to Sickle Cell Anemia. You see I didn't celebrate the way you probably thought I did...there were no baloons...no cake and ice cream...no fancy dinner....because there was only prayer. After the taping of my video I went to church where there was a special prayer service being held to pray for others. For two weeks I was on the phone with my sister with a brave heart as she battled with accepting the fact that she was about to lose a second son to sickle cell anemia. Being in the healthcare field for so many years, I knew that Only God could make an intervention because medicine and medical procedures had went to its limit. I tried daily to prepare her, and when I knew she wasn't prepared I prayed that night at church for her acceptance, especially after his heart had stopped 3 times the night before. I told her I didn't want to come to the hospital...because I did not want to see her expressions.

On yesterday afternoon, I received a call and she asked me to honor a promise that I had given her in the past weeks to be there if she needed me for something important. I thought she was going to ask me to come to the hospital to visit him, but instead she asked me a question that I wasn't ready for, "would you please handle his arrangements from the hospital...I have already left him at the hospital. My heart stopped for a brief second and I said yes. As I hung up the phone I asked myself... what have I committed to? I call the funeral home and did as she asked. She finally had earned a brave heart of acceptance and I was proud of her.