Megan Dean found a beautiful way to honor the memory of her baby sister on her wedding day.
Megan Dean was 4 years old when her baby sister, Rylie, died of a heart condition. But Dean, who has four sisters in total, knew she wanted to share her recent wedding day not only with her living siblings, but also with the sister she only knew for eight days.
"She literally didn't have half of her heart," says Slama, who lives in Plymouth, Minnesota."They performed surgery to reroute the way her heart pumped blood ... she made it through that surgery but hours later, her tiny little aorta couldn't keep up with the blood flow and she passed away." "We have sent notes to heaven on balloons and later, because it was more environmentally friendly, sky lanterns every year on her birthday — all of us standing out in the cold, saying a birthday prayer for Rylie," said Slama."We donated a rocking chair to the NICU department in her memory and participate in a heartbeat 5K race that benefits the children's hospital.
"Getting her blanket required my mom and I to open up a box filled with Rylie's things that we hadn't looked at for years," said Dean."Getting to talk with my mom about her experience and the memories she had was something quite special...I have understood the pain of losing a sister, but have never experienced the heavy loss of a child."
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