Girl's Gifts Left Behind After Death

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. Heres the story:

Just before her sixth birthday, Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer and given 135 days to live. She lived 255 days, passing away in 2007. After her death, Elenas 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"

Elenas 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.

Rest in peace, Elena...

http://www.notesleftbehind.com/elena/notes.php

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[doubletapcracklepop]

what an angel... and you too..for spreading her truth....

[PappyStu]

@doubletapcracklepop Some stories must be told... Thank you

[SKUNKBALLScom]

Wow that's really sad!

Good thing we spend 5 billion on cancer research each year...

And 935 billion on a useless war...

Way to go Bush & Obama!

What's even more retarded is if you lookup deaths from Cancer vs Terrorists it's something like over a thousand times more likely that you will die from cancer vs terrorism...

[PappyStu]

Homo sapiens...

[phekwig]

Very inspirational...

[PappyStu]

I thought so...

[cutieduck397]

Its (ah-lai-na) Deser-rik

[egirl153]

im reading the book and i cried within the first 15 pages...

[BeaHansen]

i have seen it on german tv and i had tears in my eyes, so touching

[PappyStu]

She set an example for all of us I think...