Jennifer was my first born child. She weighed 7#5oz and was 18.5" long. She was a very good baby, slept thru the night early on. She stopped her bottle on her own at age 9mths. She started walking at 10mths. and was totally potty trained at 18mths. She was a "people person" from toddler age.
Jennifer loved being the center of attention at an early age and this trait followed her thru school. She was really a bashful, insecure person, but you would never have guessed this because she never met a stranger.
Jennifer had 3 children, the oldest son is 20 years old today. Then she had a daughter whom is 15 and the baby is a boy as well, and he is 13 years old. She loved her children, and would do anything for them. She was a very good Mom, and Wife.
It wasn't until her last child was born, that she discovered she had something wrong with her medically. She went thru so many Dr.'s trying to find out what wrong with her. Initially, they told her she had MS., then, she went to another Dr., he gave her the final diagnosis of A.L.S., this was a horrible, horrible day. She had one newborn and one toddler, and the other child in elementary school. Oh how I prayed to GOD to give it to me and not to her! But, for some reason, GOD wanted her and not me! We asked WHY??? so many times.
Whem the Dr. told her it was A.L.S., he told her she would live 3 yrs., 5 if she was lucky, she was lucky, she lived 5 years. But, this was in no way lucky. It was a horrible curse. For someone so young and full of life be stricken with such a horrible, unrelentless disease, it's just HORRIBLE. To be her Parents, sit back and have to watch her wither up and die right before our eyes....the question remains the same....WHY???
Jennifer is forever in our hearts and on our minds, when we thought we wouldn't be able to go on without her, we have, but it's certainly not easy.
I want to close by saying, JENNIFER GAIL OLDFIELD HILDEBRANDT, your Momma and Daddy both love you and we will see you soon, waiting behind those pearly gates with that beautiful smile that only YOU could wear!