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This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Robert Chiappini, 61 years old, born on June 10, 1939, and passed away on June 29, 2000. We will remember him forever.
June 18, 2023
June 18, 2023
Happy Father's Day. I miss you so much.
Give mom a hug for me

Love you dad and mom
June 10, 2023
June 10, 2023
Happy 84th Birthday Dad

Love and Miss you....
May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023
End of May Dad

Can't help to wonder what you would look like.
It will be 23 years you left this world and mom joined you last year
Some days I just a m lost with being an orphan now.
I miss you Dad.
June 19, 2022
June 19, 2022
Happy Father's Day! Daddy..

I wish I could see you one more time, here your voice, your laughter and goofiness.
I miss you so much.
Love you.
June 11, 2022
June 11, 2022
June 10 2022

Happy 83rd Birthday Dad.

I miss you and love you.
December 23, 2021
December 23, 2021
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve Dad.
Some of the best times in my life was the holidays. Just does seem Christmas like this year.
I dreamed of you and Mom the other night awoke in tears.
Please watch over us. Mom is not good. I am not sure what time frame we have left with her . Hate seeing her so frail. Dementia and Cancer is doing a number on her.
Miss you Daddy.
Merry Christmas in Heaven.
June 29, 2021
June 29, 2021
This day in June is the hardest. 6 29 2021

This was a horrible morning for sure. I relive it in my head a lot. Not something I like to share and to be honest I am glad it is in my head and not on a photo, it is hard enough to keep it out of my head and heart.
The images of that moment I lost My Dad. My hero, My Santa Claus, My Easter Bunny, and My Protector.

My Life and My heart has never been the same. The heart lost a big piece that day and the void is like a big hole in it.

At 12:45 I watched my daddy take his last breath and his last heart beat diminish. I watched how PSP ravaged my Dad’s body and there was not a damn thing I/or anyone else can do.

Dad became his own hero of his disease. As much as he did not want to go on with a disease that affecting every part of his being.Lost doing all the things he loved to do. 
He became a Hero of his disease. In the process he showed me how to have courage, to have strength, to have love for others even if they could not love back. I have become my own warrior of my diseases because of My Dad.

Would I would not give to hear his voice, his laughter, and his stupid jokes to see him as he aged. Something that I will never have that chance to see.

Until we meet again Daddy..

I miss you so so much and I love you forever,
Your Baby Girl Tina
June 10, 2021
June 10, 2021
Happy 82nd Birthday Daddy. i miss you so much.
Love your Baby girl T
June 29, 2020
June 29, 2020
Daddy hard to believe 20 years have passed by. I miss you so much. I cannot seem to get my heart to mend .Mom is real sick dad. Watch and wait for her Mom.I love you Daddy
June 29, 2019
June 29, 2019
19 years i am still struggling Daddy.miss you so much
June 16, 2019
June 16, 2019
Happy Fathers Day Daddy.miss you so much.Love your baby girl Tina
June 11, 2019
June 11, 2019
can hardly believe you would of turned 80 yesterday i miss you Dad Happy Birthday in Heaven.xoxo
June 30, 2017
June 30, 2017
Little late this was for yesterday Daddy....17 years today I lost my Daddy. These 17 years have been hardest to deal without my Dad. Most of you know we celebrated our birthday's his was the 10th mine is 30th than there was Father's Day. I lost my dad a day before my birthday. That first year my own mother couldn't even wish me a happy Birthday. Imagine Your dad being there for the little things that mattered waking up at Easter and Christmas time watching us hunt for eggs or opening our gifts.Being awake in the mornings giving me a bowl cereal because my mother would not get out of bed. Or when I was having a baby and he kept saying it was a boy and he was right and sent a dozen roses and I asked my dad if I can name him after him expect for the middle name because that was my brother's name he was a stillborn. He said that would be ok. He loved Rob and Rob loved him . My rob resembles him especially when he wears hats. When I was little he would give us the rabbit foots or deer tails. when I got sick with high fever and lost hearing in my ear after he returned home from work he sat down by me to make sure i was doing ok there was candy involved as well . Putting my dad on tv for his PSP spending a week with him daily at Geisinger in Danville while he went through every test imaginable. having Dr Hosey calling me at work when he was in hospice and telling me it was a honor getting to know me that i am a good daughter These are memories that I carry so many more than there are those memories that one cannot forget and some that the hurt just does not go away his last breath the preparations the taking his favorite suit to be cleaned the picking out his coffin while my family stood there because they couldn't do it the going through his belongings and did it without me and the most hurtful thing is spreading his ashes without me and not letting me have closure as well.
I really do not care what other people may think. The day my dad passed is the day a huge void in my heart has been with me ever since
I loved my Dad i loved the things he did. everyone has faults in my eyes he was Daddy he was a hard worker and he was a hero of his own disease. Most of all I was his little girl
Dad today when I was doing yard work a Bluebird was singing...
Forever and a day I wish you was still here.. I hope that you have seen all i have accomplished and how now I fight daily with my disease .I Love and miss you so..Until I see you again
June 29, 2016
June 29, 2016
16 years and it still is not any easier... I miss you Daddy.. I wish you were still here... sending hugs & all my love up to heaven.. xoxoxo
June 20, 2016
June 20, 2016
I celebrated you today. My friend Mimi and I she lost her Dad this month will be a year. I hope you got to meet him in heaven he was a jokester like you was.
I went to the marina and let the Balloon life high I miss you so much. Hard to even imagine next week will be 16 years.Love you Dad I wish you were here.Your Baby Girl Tina...
June 19, 2016
June 19, 2016
Happy Father's Day in Heaven Daddy.. I miss you so much . Dosen't seem to get any easier... Love you Tina...
June 12, 2016
June 12, 2016
Happy 77th Birthday in Heaven Daddy...6-10-2016

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June 18, 2023
June 18, 2023
Happy Father's Day. I miss you so much.
Give mom a hug for me

Love you dad and mom
June 10, 2023
June 10, 2023
Happy 84th Birthday Dad

Love and Miss you....
May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023
End of May Dad

Can't help to wonder what you would look like.
It will be 23 years you left this world and mom joined you last year
Some days I just a m lost with being an orphan now.
I miss you Dad.
Recent stories
June 12, 2016

My father, Robert Chiappini, became sick a few years prior to his diagnosis. He was approximately 58 when his symptoms began. Dad was a roofer who began having falls, developed a festinating gait, and generally did not feel well. Our first thought was that he had Parkinson’s disease.

In 1997, doctors said my dad had ALS, and for a year, we thought that was what it was. I lived 2 hours away from Dad, so it was very hard having him sick and so far away, but I managed to find an ALS support group for him to attend. He loved it. Even though it was a very sad time for him, Dad was able to make new friends there. Unfortunately, his best support group friend passed away - I think that really had an impact on him.

In 1998, Dad was transferred to a different neurologist in Danville, Pennsylvania. When we first met the new neurologist, he immediately questioned the ALS diagnosis. He put my dad in the hospital for a week to administer tests and told us that he would have a diagnosis by the end of the week. Since Dad was only going to be 30 minutes from where I lived, I took a medical leave of absence so that I could be with him each day.

The tests were hard on him - spinal taps, x-rays, CT scans, MRIs, mental tests, and loads of blood work. He endured pretty much every test that you can imagine, but proved to be quite the trooper. I don’t know how he did it but I shed tears for him every day that he had to endure another test. By the end week, he was ready to go home.

By the end of the week, we had been given the diagnosis - progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). The only question Dad had for the neurologist was, “how long?” I remember how my heart immediately hurt. The doctor could not provide the answer. He said it could be a year or a couple of years, but that those numbers were just guesses. The doctor recommended that my dad go to a care facility, but that was not a realistic option for us. My mother was his primary caregiver and she still continued to work, as well. Dad had a nurse who came and helped him bathe, took him for walks and fixed lunch for him.

That same night, I got on the internet and found CurePSP. They were so helpful and even had a place on the website to meet other people with PSP and their caregivers. Knowing that my father would see his gait worsen, have more trouble eating, and eventually leave us, was devastating to us. As I had done quite a bit of research of PSP, I gave all of the information that I found to my family and they were, expectedly, very upset by it. I believe it may have just been too hard for them to come to terms with at that point.

In 1999, CurePSP suggested that its constituents attempt to get their loved one on one of the local TV stations in an effort to help raise awareness about the disease. After a lot of hard work, my dad was a star for the day and was able to tell his story of being diagnosed with PSP - he loved the fact that he would be on TV. At that time, PSP was relatively unknown, barely even heard of and had no cure. Dad’s doctor even spoke to the TV station about PSP and its effects. Dad’s TV appearance happened to coincide with Dudley Moore’s interview with Barbara Walters, where he discussed his battle with PSP. It was one of the best things that I did for my dad, even though some members of my family were not supportive of it. The day dad went on television, he gave me his fishing tackle box. He knew his time was limited. To this day, I cherish every one of those lures. There was no PSP support group in Scranton, Pennsylvania at that time, so everything I learned I would relay to my parents. If dad asked, I did not lie – I always told him the truth of what I had learned about the disease. I would call Dad weekly and he would get so excited when I would tell him about my fishing experiences. He would begin telling me of his own fishing trips and laughing about some of them until the laughter overwhelmed him. Those calls made his day and to hear him talk about his fishing experiences were the best part of my day, as well. That is what I miss the most - hearing my dad’s voice. Daddy loved both hunting and fishing. It is an honor remembering the times that I took him on my boat and helped him fish in his last years. It was a very emotional experience for me as well, as he needed help to cast and hold his rod. 
 

Before Father’s Day, in June of 2000, Dad was admitted to the hospital for a hoarse cough and aspiration pneumonia. The next week he was put on the hospice floor and on June 10th, 2000, my daddy turned 61. I got to spend a few nights at the hospital with him.

On June 28th, I got a phone call that Dad had taken a turn for the worst so I headed back up to the hospital. The next day, one day before my birthday, Dad took his last breath. June 2012 will be 12 years since he has passed. Every June feels to me like it is being replayed - I miss celebrating our birthdays together and being his little girl.

One thing that I have learned from this experience is that, when someone you love is affected by a disease with no cure, the best things that you can give them are your compassion, understanding, and utmost respect. They did not ask for their disease.

I would have loved for my Dad to grow old and see how his family has grown. My wish is that a cure will be found and PSP will no longer take more lives. It didn’t happen in my dad’s time but hopefully someday it will.

Now I am experiencing firsthand what living with a chronic illness is like – I have COPD (emphysema). I know in my heart that Dad would tell me, “don’t ever give up and always have hope in your heart.”

 

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