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Larayna Hope Tapetillo- Brain cancer

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          LARAYNA HOPE TAPETILLO 
            12-27-2000 ~ 02/14/2021
Larayna went to heaven on Valentine's day 2021. She fought brain cancer for almost 16 months since her date of diagnosis. It was a high grade very aggressive brain cancer called Gliomatosis Cerebri. At the end, it had spread into more than 14 parts of her brain. It was diffused cancer meaning no surgery possible to remove any of it. 
My daughter always tried to remain positive. Brain surgery,  brain biopsy, brain shunt surgery,  MRI's, over a year of IV treatments,  6 weeks of radiation, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, seizures that at one point she was having over 20 a day, seizure medications, CT scans, vision loss,  loss of right side of body, loss of memory,  several falls, Side of effects from all the meds and treatments. This list goes on...lost ability to speak and then the ability to breath. 
We were also in a severe car accident on January 27th after they told me baby she would die from this cancer.  We have deep seat belt wounds, whiplash, lumps and deep bruises bigger than our hands on our bodies.  This only made her death come sooner and with more pain.  I blame myself and I'm so sorry Larayna! 
Even through all of that, she did her best and still managed to shine her heart into people's lives.  She was smart and witty. She would catch ppl off guard with her witty humor! She made me laugh and smile often! 
I'm still finding notes She wrote me with jokes on them.  She brought joy to so many! 
I miss my daughter so much!!!
She is in Heaven now free of cancer and those awful seizures that it caused. 
She is dancing in Heaven!! 
She is free!! 
Please still keep my daughter alive in your memories. Please say her name! Please spread brain cancer awareness!
Please keep her in your prayers!!!
Thank you for all who have helped us along this journey! Thank you your prayers and donations! Thank you for your time and kind hearts!!
I didn't know what amount to put on here. I still do not have a date for services or costs.  I just put numbers from her birthday. She came to me as a Christmas baby and left me as a Valentine's Love Angel. 
I will use donations for her church and funeral services. I also really want to set up a scholarship in her name! For any teen that wants to continue their higher education and that has been touched by this awful cancer in their household! If I can not do that I will figure out a way to honor her! Something that will keep her name alive!
My words can never really detail the pain that cancer rips through a little human body! It hurts as a mother to not have been able to fix it.
Cancer took my only baby girl from me! I sit in a house alone filled with her stuff! 
The pain is deep and really started the day I was told, your daughter has brain cancer
  

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Latisha Tapetillo
Organizer
Merced, CA

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