I Can't Wait

By Donna Mc Quillen

SAMANTHA IS A BRIGHT, LOVING ,SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL WHOSE LIFE ON THIS EARTH COMES TO A HALT WHEN SHE HAS TO LEARN TO DEAL WITH CANCER. HER LEGS HAVE BECOME WEAK AND SEMI-PARALYZED. HER HEART IS SAD BECAUSE SHE IS NOT ABLE TO RUN AND PLAY WITH OTHER CHILDREN. SHE WATCHES OUT THE WINDOW WHILE HER FRIENDS GO OFF TO SCHOOL.

HER CONDITION WORSENS TO THE POINT OF NO RETURN. HER PARENTS DECIDE THAT THE BEST PLACE FOR HER IS HOSPICE BECAUSE THEY WANT THEIR LOVING DAUGHTER TO HAVE THE VERY BEST OF CARE. A VOLUNTEER DEVOTES TIME AND LOVE TO HER AND TEACHES HER ABOUT A VERY IMPORTANT SKILL THAT SHE CAN USE AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT. SHE PRACTICES WITH SAM EVERY DAY. SHE TEACHES HER TO BECOME INDEPENDENT IN THE USE OF THIS SKILL. SHE PLAYS WITH THE SKILL. USES IT OFTEN AND PREPARES HERSELF FOR A NEW LIFE.

SAMANTHA FINDS HER PEACE AT HOSPICE AFTER A LONG, HEART WRENCHING PERIOD OF DESPAIR.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462884766

Donna Mc Quillen

Donna Mc Quillen was born in Kenmore, NY, At the age of seventeen she entered the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart and went into the teaching profession. She received her BA from D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY and her MS in Education from the State University of New York. After fourteen years as a nun, she left the religious order and resumed her teaching career in North Tonawanda, NY. She spent a total of forty years in the classroom with young children. After retirement Donna moved with her husband, Bud, to Edgewater, Florida. Here they both became immersed in volunteering for the local Hospice. This experience brought total focus into their lives. It is because of this that Donna wrote “I Can’t Wait”. Through this she hopes to ease the lives of parents who have to face tough situations with their children or other loved ones. Through this book she also hopes to give all patients a skill that will ease their fear and present much peace to them. Donna hopes that those who are approaching their next life will be able to steer their ships with love and joyful anticipation after reading this book. Then they can join Samantha in saying, “I Can’t Wait.”

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I Can’t Wait

Donna Mc Quillen

Copyright © 2011 by Donna Mc Quillen.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011909417

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4628-8475-9

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

CHAPTER 1

It was the middle of autumn in Florida. The unbearable heat was subsiding and the cool breezes were finding their way through the trees. This day was an especially good day for Mary Hart. Samantha, her seven year old daughter, had finally asked to go and play with the rest of the children in the neighborhood. She had been very depressed because of her incurable illness and had not wanted to see her friends or play with anyone. She knew that her body was ravaged with an incurable cancer and she felt cheated because all of the other children in the block could run and play, laugh and sing, jump and do all