{NOTE: This was originally published on Vanessa’s CarePage. We are copying all those posts here to have her story in one place that all can access. We are back-dating the posts to match when she originally published the post there, and are marking the blog post here with Vanessa as the author, as these words that follow are her own.}

Posted May 13, 2007 10:36am

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! I want to especially honor my mom for all she’s done for me. I couldn’t go through this without her! Send some prayers her way too…she deserves them as much as I do! Mom, you’ve been fantastic! Thanks for EVERYTHING. Love you bunches!! :) V