[Coco] News of Ashley Taylor

[Rod Barnhart]

Roger,

My condolences. It's always painful to hear of the loss of a child. I
wish I could offer more comfort, but I am near tears myself. Just know
that you're in a lot of people's thoughts and prayers.

Rod


On 1/10/06, Roger Taylor <roger at newfoal.com> wrote:
> For those who remember my posts last year about my niece Ashley Taylor, I
> have some bad news.
>
> She was 7 years old.  She died today on her way to St. Judes for an air
> treatment.  My brother Doug got in the back of the vehicle with her while
> his wife drove and Ashley took her last few breaths of air and died in his
> arms.
>
> What kept me going all this time is knowing that miracles can happen, and
> that Ashley was also not in any pain because she was on morphine 24/7.  She
> stayed glued to her favorite tv shows, and you could make her giggle
> sometimes if you stayed persistent with your tactics. :)
>
> For Christmas she asked for one thing...  A big black horse.  On Christmas
> day, the whole family watched her receive her present, a big black
> horse.  When I asked her what she was gonna name it, she quickly said,
> Beautiful.  She got to see her horse once or twice more at my sister's ranch.
>
> The saddest and most funniest thing that happened at once (is that
> possible?) is that Ashley and her dad were climbing up onto the horse for
> the first time, and he was holding Ashley, and toppled off the other side
> onto the ground.  Ashley was already real frail and on pain hookups, etc.
> so she could not take any kind of fall like that.  They both hit the ground
> hard.  Everybody panicked and started crying because Ashley was yelling
> that it was hurting her.  The fact was that Doug landed on his shoulder
> area to break the fall, and Ashley never touched the ground, but it did
> scare her pretty bad.  Two minutes later, Ashley broke up the huddle by
> saying, "that wasn't such a good idea".  :) She said she was gonna try
> again later, "but not right now".  :)
>
> Ashley originally told everybody that she didn't want visitors on Christmas
> day and that she was not coming to the party, but at the last hour before
> the party, she changed her mind and decided to come.  So she was around a
> lot of loved ones on Christmas day and everybody gave her extra
> attention.  My last words to her was I Love You and I kissed her on her
> forehead, then I told her See you later, Bye Bye... not knowing if I would
> see her again.
>
> I just wanted to share this news and to mention that I might be kinda
> transparent for a little while as we deal with this but I will be here
> doing my work as usual.
>
>
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> Roger Taylor
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