In Mourning

While the majority of our country was enjoying the Super Bowl with family and friends (including myself) the world lost a truly wonderful person. After her long battle with a very rare cancer, my Aunt Denise Campagnano passed away yesterday.

Aunt Denise discovered she was sick about 5 years ago. She fought long and hard- undergoing chemotherapy (which did not work) and 4 major surgeries between then and now to remove the cancerous tumors that kept returning and spreading throughout her body. These operations were not that far apart from each other- a year max, and yet the doctors would have to spend up to 13 hours removing the cancer! Undergoing these painful procedures was not for nothing... after recovering each time she regained energy and was able to spend more time with her family, including her 5 daughters and 5 grandchildren. She attended our wedding in the summer of 2008 and had so much fun! I am very grateful that she was a part of our special day, and I will always remember her and Paul dancing together. :)

We visited Connecticut this past Christmas and I was able to spend time with her. She was very weak and fraile- not the Aunt Denise I knew. She had recently had a blood transfusion so that she would have more energy for the holidays. Aunt Denise told me that she wouldn't have any more treatments, and it was obvious that the time was near.

She is in a better place now- up in heaven with Grandpa Camp I'm sure. My heart goes out her children- my cousins, and thier children in this time of sorrow. She was a wonderful person, full of life and love, and she will truly be missed.

Denise Campagnano 1949-2010