JESSA ANN fought through two lung transplant operations over 4-years.
I’m going to share some personal information here…
Words like BRAVE or FEARLESSNESS IN-SPITE OF IMPENDING DEATH, CARING and GENEROUS and KIND… cannot do her justice.
My daughter was in love with a fine young man, and he loved her too. They traveled extensively as was her wish. I am forever grateful to him. She always had many friends and yet was as competitive as I am, maybe more. She just hid it and delivered it so much better. People usually liked her or better, and she lit-up rooms.
As an empowered head-strong 7-year old, she became a life-long vegetarian because I was teasing her at the dinner table and said “Moo” when she ate her hamburger. That was it for her, “Daddy I don’t want to eat the cow!”
At 16 “Jessica” decided to change her name to “JESSA”, to get rid of the “ic”, and not have a common name. I usually just called her “Bug”, short for “LoveBug”.
She spent way too much of her short life fighting just to draw a breath, because of transplants and viscous never ceasing infections.
She never ever gave up, not for one minute. We talked and talked and she said was as prepared as best she could be
I miss her so much. After 27-years, she was the only thing there that was holding me to New York City