Funeral For Cristina Meehan & memorial wishes.

Just seven days after my moms 48th birthday,  my family was going to receive life altering news. My mother had dealt with migraines her whole life, but on August 15,2018 after taking her to the ER for a headache her life would change.  As i was  sitting in an emergeny room looking at my mom's M.R.I  i couldnt belive what i was looking at. It was cancer.  Two days later on August 17th my mom had a craniotomy to remove one of the three tumors in her brain.  While the surgery went well, we still had to wait three long weeks for the pathology report from Johns Hopkins Hospital.  While we thought that her having the surgery would maybe, just maybe give us a few more precious months with her.  Then we got the confirmation...my mother Cristina Meehan was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme Stage 4 Brain Cancer. This diagnosis was incomprehensible to my family.  In that moment my life froze.  I realized that my mother, my sister, my best friend , my solemate, was going to be torn out of my life.  As I was constantly at her bedside I started to see the effects of the cancer.  My mom once full of life, light, love, happiness,  excitement, laughter, stories, and knowledge.  Was quickly losing her memory.  She also was still was complaining of extreme headaches.  I would have to beg her to eat, and drink. I knew i was losing her. I knew the doctors said she had weeks maybe even a few days left, but I refused to believe it.  Then on August 13th, 2018 my mom was slipping in and out of consciousness.  Waking up screaming and trembling, then passing out from the pain.  This continued throughout the evening.  I knew in my heart that it was going to be her last day.  The cancer had taking its grip on my mom's life.  The tumor that they had been removed had grown back with a vengeance.  We then found out that 25% of her brain had been taken over.  The pressure that had built caused her to become brain dead.  In the early morning of August 14th 2018 I knew i had to make the hardest decision of my life.  I had to take my mother off of life support.  She always told me,  If anything ever happened to her to not let a machine keep her going. To let her spirit be free to move on.  With my grandparents and I holding her hands in the ICU we said our goodbuys, we prayed, we cried, and held on to every last second.  Then at 5:15am my mom had taken her last breath.  As I held her and wept into her chest I looked up with tears in my eyes, and I gave my mom a kiss on the cheek.  I then whispered in her ear "wait for me mom one day we will be together again, But for now follow the light.  I love you to the moon and back." Cancer took my mom at such a young age.  She still had so much more of life to live.   My mom was a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a friend to all that knew her.  We are still trying to put together funeral service  for her.  Hopefully with help we can finalize the arrangements. This morning I found out that to cremate my mom it cost my grandparents $4,000 that we truly just did not have. S please with you're big hearts, and generosity maybe we can help my nanny and Poppy get back the $4,000 that it took to cremate her. I mean it's worth a shot to ask, and to you all who have helped, you're all trully a Miracle to my family. To all that knew and loved my mom...I know she will watch over her friends and family for the rest of time...