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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1065445)	4/15/2018 2:49:45 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1577030

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1065445)

4/15/2018 8:51:56 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1577030

Before the normal BS:

Barbara Bush is said to be dying. In failing health at 92 and not seeking further treatment. At home with her family in Houston.

This means that Ms. Bush will soon be reunited with her daughter Robin, who died of leukemia at age 4.

Barbara Bush recalls daughter's death: 'I saw her spirit go'
by Eun Kyung Kim / Oct.14.2016 / 12:57 AM ET / Updated Nov.20.2012 / 9:21 AM ET

The doctor delivered a diagnosis no parent wants to hear for a child: cancer.

Robin, the 3-year-old daughter of former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, had become listless and no longer wanted to play.

It was 1953, and tests revealed she had leukemia. When the Bushes asked what they needed to do, their doctor gave them a devastating prognosis.

“She said, ‘You don’t do anything. She’s going to die,’” former first lady Barbara Bush recalled for her granddaughter, Jenna Bush Hager, in a TODAY interview.

“'She said, ‘My advice is take her home, love her. In about two weeks she’ll be gone.'”

Instead, the Bushes took their daughter across the country to a hospital willing to treat children, something virtually unheard of at the time. Blood transfusions and painful bone marrow tests followed, but Robin eventually died, just shy of her fourth birthday.

“I was combing her hair and holding her hand,” Bush said. “I saw that little body, I saw her spirit go,”

Decades later, leukemia is no longer a death sentence for children. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital estimates the survival rate for the most common type of leukemia to be 94 percent, thanks to improved technology as well as cells and DNA preserved from patients treated in the 1960s, according to hospital doctors.

Hager pointed out that stigma around cancer has also changed. When Robin was diagnosed, neighbors wouldn’t let their children around her, for fear that they would catch the disease. The scientific and social progress over the years brings comfort to the Bushes, who donated Robin’s body to research after her death.

“It made Gampy and me feel that something good is coming out of this precious little life. And today, almost nobody dies of leukemia,” Bush told Hager, whose father, former President George W. Bush, was seven when his sister died.

Decades later, Robin continues to be on the minds of the Bushes, even more so in recent years, Bush said.

“Robin to me is a joy. She’s like an angel to me, and she’s not a sadness or a sorrow,” she said, remembering “those little fat arms around my neck."

Hager noted how her grandfather has mentioned he expects Robin to be the first person to see when he passes away. Bush has no doubt that will be the case.

“It is who he’ll see first,” she said firmly.

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It is the promise of the Son of God:

John 14:1-3 1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.