Saying goodbye to Donna Gregory

Written by fellow HealthTalk blogger, Sue Falkner Wood Life is often a struggle. Many of us who live with daily health problems know this all too well. All of us who share our stories and our lives here at HealthTalk.com do so in order to enrich our own lives and the lives of others. The vast majority of us write about our own problems with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions was a courageous outgoing and sunny-faced young woman named Donna Gregory. She wrote about her husband’s illness and its effect on both of them, as a young couple and as parents to their 4-year-old twins, Bobby and Amanda. Donna shared her life and her husband Bob’s, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, with all of us. She shared on a very personal level what it was like to have her marriage invaded by the intruder called disease. They fought with cancer. Many of us fight with other forms of pain and life-threatening horrors. Many of us, like Donna and Bob, face our mortality and realize this is a battle to be fought, to be waged and to be won. Occasionally, tragedy strikes us in mid-battle. Such was the case in Donna’s life. The Gregory Family Bob and Donna Gregory died in a plane crash along with the pilot, Joseph Baker on an Angel Flight airplane yesterday, August 12, 2008. What an ironic name for that particular incident. According to Donna’s mother, the flight was for a check-up for Bob in Boston. His cancer was in remission. Life was finally beginning to “look up”...
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