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Does anyone have a video of her laughter?

January 30, 2014

Can someone please post a video of Michelle laughter?  Her son would really like to hear it!  There has to be a video out there somewhere of her laughing!   I am searching through mine.....
 

Im Sorry

January 28, 2011

When i met Michelle i would have never thought that she had had breast cancer. She never complained about it, she bragges and boasted about the fact that she had beaten breast cancer. This was something that i had never experienced or expected to come to know but when i met her my way of thinking changed. I now do the Avon walk for breast cancer and this year i will be doing this in her memory, i will be doing this for her. I feel like the worst friend in the world because i didnt know until 4 days after she had passed away that anyhting had happened. I talked to her what seemed like the other day and she seemed just fine she never told me she was sick again, i hate that i wasnt there and i didnt get to say good  bye. i tell her everynight that i wanted to be there with her and i only wish she will forgive me. I know shes looking down on all of us and especially to my baby boy, she is the best aunt/mom he has ever had. That boy took to her like a cat to milk. As soon as he seen her he threw his hands up and grinned from ear to ear and says up. we were together almost every weekend. I miss her dearly and Love her more than ever. Rest In Peace my Love. I love and miss you so so so much.

Dani and Boog

January 14, 2011

I remember one of my last phone calls with Michelle like it was yesterday. It was in September..Michelle called me at work which was unusual. I can hear the whole conversation in my head. She said "hey sis what are you doing can you talk?" I went outside to my jeep so I would not be bothered. We laughed. We talked about our kids. We always went to starbucks together everytime I can in town. So we talked about that and how she wished I lived there and of course how much trouble we would have gotten into together if I did. She was feeling so good that day! I miss my sis so much. Her laugh just made me smile and laugh. I have so many special memories of Michelle. We were like goofy teenagers. Especially when we would go to my sisters closet. Oh My! I love my sis so much!

 

 

 

 

January 13, 2011

I met Michelle around 4 years ago, she lived across the street from the guy I was dating and am now married to.  At first it was just a friendly wave and then I dropped my kids in her lap one night so Doug and I could go out... (I didnt know her from Eve, but for some reason I already trusted her), then I started going over when she was on her porch and visting with her and from there we became friends.  I moved to Joplin in October 2008 around the time when Michelle started her Chemo Therapy and expected to see this frail little girl with pain in her eyes.  That is NOT what I saw... I saw a great big smile and those huge green eyes.  I saw My Michelle.  She once told me that she hated the color pink, until she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Pink has ALWAYS been my favorite color.  I also like to wear my hair up in a hat (always pink) b/c some days I was lazy and didnt feel like fixing it.  Our friend Stacy who also lives across the street from me wore hats as well.  Michelle said it was like we were sent to her to make her feel better when she lost her hair b/c she knew she could also wear a hat and no one would know the difference b/c we all would be wearing them.  Michelle called Stacy and I her Special Friends and told us both on several occasions that we did not meet by chance but that God had brought us all together to help her through this nasty disease.  She would tell me that she learned so much from me and through me, but in all actuality She was the one who inspired me.  She was the strong one, the courageous one.  She was MY special friend, My Michelle.   The week Michelle died I was thinking to myself or maybe I was talking to Michelle and asking her what is was like in heaven??  The Wildwood Church on 20th street always have these cool sayings on their sign and this one in particular had been there for maybe a couple of weeks and I had seen it but never paid any attention to it... this night while driving home and talking to her it stuck out like a sore thumb, it said "Heaven is Awesome"  and I knew Michelle had answered me.  You see I wasnt sent here to Michelle, Michelle was my gift from God and although I didnt know her for very long  she will ALWAYS hold a very special place in my heart!   I miss you very much Michelle  Rest in Peace....   

Robert and Amy...got married

January 13, 2011

Michelle, told her brother, since he had found his special love, to keep her for life.... and they did!!!

Michelle's Story to be told........and remembered.

January 13, 2011
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (Breakfast Club Soundtrack)

 

Recently I was asked a question, while at an event for Breast Cancer. Are you a survivor? My answer was no.  
 
Now, I am going to change my answer. My answer now is Yes, Yes I am.  Because I travelled with a survivor. We are survivors because we have walked hand in hand though it with a loved one.   Let me share with you why.   
 
When I was 9 years old, I did not have to play with dolls, because I had a real live one! My niece Michelle was my real live doll. I got to dress her, feed her, play with her…what a wonderful feeling that was, to be an aunt at only 9 years old.
 
We traveled a long road together! In 1996, Michelle came to  the porch at my parents house for Thanksgiving Dinner with food in hand, I reached out and touched her wrist, and said, you are pregnant, her reply was a very matter of fact, NO I AM NOT!   After convincing the guys to run to the grocery store in Granby before 5 when they closed to obtain the tell tale pregnancy test, then with 9 of us in the bathroom for the test, the result was positive. Our family was expecting!   Michelle was very pregnant when I had taken my daughter on vacation to the Bahamas and I told her don’t you dare have that baby until I get back.   Landon was born 2 days after we returned.  She told me she was waiting for me to get back for that awesome event! Her son, Landon was indeed the love of her life!    
 
My niece Michelle Mynatt at a very young age was diagnosed with breast cancer, she went though a mastectomy, and chemo, and radiation. Never loosing her faith, or hope for a cure. She was going to beat this and tell her story to the world.   And, finally she was cancer free for a year! So, the reconstruction could start now, she went through that process, and gained ~  a failed reconstruction, that ultimately had to be undone. Then, only a few months later, the cancer was back,  it surfaced its ugly head again, she thought she was having a stroke, but no…the diagnosis was seizures, caused by, Matasized Stage 4 Brain Cancer, that diagnosis was given to her on April 21, 2010.   The prognosis was not good, she was told without treatment, 3 months, and with the most aggressive treatment 6 to 9 months. Michelle was a single mom, and now she had to have someone with her 24/7, she was told that she could not drive her car anymore, what a damper on your spirit huh?   Without a worry,  she put all of her worldly possessions into storage and moved in with her Mom, and pledged to fight this, win the battle, get better and continue on with her life. She told us she was not done here yet and she was not leaving.   She chose the most aggressive treatment plan, and she was going to beat it and live to tell her story.   She endured chemo, radiation, new chemo with pre-pills, and pills. She never complained, she was fighting everyday to make a difference and beat this horrible word.   She never lost her smile, and when you ask her how are you today, she would flash a huge smile and those green eyes would dance, and she would say, “I am fine, the Good Lord is taking care of me, and I am going to beat this”. 
 
This nasty cancer spread through her body like wild fire. It attacked her internal organs, it came up on the surface of her skin, with new cancers showing up frequently, the most invasive one on her pinky finger on her left hand, she endured 29 Radiation treatments on that finger alone.  
 
During her treatments, Michelle was very weak and needed assistance with her baths and showers, during one of those showers, she discovered a “dimpling” or “valley”, on my sister and Michelle insisted that she go have it checked. On June 21, 2010, only two months after Michelle’s cancer coming back, my sister Jackie Chavez was told she too had breast cancer.    Jackie had a double mastectomy, with reconstruction. Michelle encouraged Jackie though her diagnosis, and told her, “Mom, put your big girl panties on, we are going to get through this”    Already Michelle’s experience and passion helped to save her mother from enduring what so many others do by not finding their cancer early.   Jackie is now taking chemo.   My sweet sister, will beat this one! Already Michelle's experience and passion helped save her mother, my sister, from enduring what so many others do by not finding their cancer early.   Thanks Michelle.
 
On October 9, 2010 at 1:13 am, heaven gained a precious angel, as her fight was won. We lost a precious mother, daughter, sister, niece, aunt, cousin, & granddaughter and totally awesome friend to so many.    She was loved by everyone that ever met her!    When I say to you her fight was won, you are wondering, why was it won and not lost ……right?    Because, I myself saw her win it.   When she left us, the cancer on her little pinky finger that was causing her such pain, and could not be tackled, was gone.   Her little finger was healed, it looked no different than your finger or mine. Yes it gave me chills to see it, as it does to tell you about it.    Her body was still here with us, and we were shown such a magnificent healing.   She was in heaven and has been given a body free of pain, free of cancer.  
 
So, why do I choose to share such a private, intimate story of our family, and our family’s loss? To make sure that it does not happen to another mother, daughter, sister, cousin, neice, aunt, granddaughter or friend.   We must share the information. Please do not forget to do your monthly self breast checks, and if ANYTHING is unusual, go have it checked out. You do NOT have to be “40 or over” to get breast cancer. 
 
Am I a survivor because I have had breast cancer? No, I am not and pray that I will never have to answer yes to that question.    I am a survivor because I have personally endured the pain of following Michelle’s journey and loosing my niece, and watched the pain of my sister loosing her daughter and very best friend, can you imagine watching the pain of my 14 year old great nephew loosing his mother ~ what about Christmas, or Proms or his Wedding and his babies. Seeing her brother say goodbye to his Sister in the summer,  and him somehow knowing this was to be the last time he would see her alive, or seeing her 83 year old grandmother loosing her granddaughter, and so heart wrentching to watch my daughter, her cousin, those two had such a sweet connection, they had shared so many sweet precious times and memories and she was  losing her “like a sister to me”.   YES those are the reasons I say, I am a survivor.   
 
This nasty word has caused our family, so much hurt. …….we still had so much to do! So many Thanksgivings, Christmases, Valentines Day’s, Easters, All those lake holidays we loved.   Now, we have to plan flowers for Memorial Day. 
 
You don't have to have breast cancer, or have had it even, to speak out about it. If that were true... then the numbers of people making a difference and supporting the cause would be so much lower. This disease needs everyone with a voice to fight against it...be it in prayer... speaking to groups about the importance of early detection... or to raise money for a cure and to combat the disease.
I will tell Michelle’s story, and I won’t quit ……because I promised her somehow we will make a difference, and she told me “Yes we will”.    
 
And now, that is my mission, to make sure that there is a voice to help make a difference, to make sure that the information is there for all ladies, regardless of their age…. To know what to look for, when to be concerned, NOT to worry if you don’t have insurance or a doctor, and when to tell your doctor to check this out!  
 
Rest in Peace Michelle. We love you.    
 

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