Honoring Rebecca

The friends and family of our sweet Rebecca Friedner, taken too soon from us due to complications of Type 1 Diabetes and inadequate access to healthcare, have opened this GoFundMe to help with the financial burden. The following are words from Michelle, her bereft mama:

“As a parent, you want to protect your baby. You want to provide for your baby, and you want to stand alongside your baby and fight their battles. You want them to see victory and you want to see them kick ass. You want to see them achieve their every dream. You want them to work hard and have pride in their accomplishments. You want them to learn about life and how it it can kick you in the gut and you can stand back up and kick it back. You want to meet their every need and never want to see them hurt. You want to consume their anguish and digest it as your own. You want to tell every battle to back down. You want them to find love and to love themselves. You want them to be happy. You would take any bullet for them, and you would do anything to save them from this cruel and heartless world. 

 

And then you learn that you are helpless. That your best efforts are futile. You have no control over the evil that pervades this earth. The disease that seeks to claim their body. You can only trust that the Creator that gifted them to you in the first place will hold them safe for you and will love them so unfathomably that your love looks like apathy. 

 

We are surrounded by immeasurable love and friends and family that are ingesting this pain with us. The glutinous serving of this pain is being consumed by so many that our portion is being lessened. A week that I would never have wagered that I would live through has been made possible through the love of our ride or dies. God has placed strangers and friends of our dear sweet daughter in our paths to guide, direct, assist and just plain take on the burden. Our needs are being met through miraculous ways and I am forever grateful. The financial costs of tragedy are just the bitter aftertaste of loss. The way Satan can remind you for years of what he stole from you. We will always rise to the requirement to meet the needs of our loved ones, but if you are as angry as I am and you are yearning to share our burden, we will accept the generosity of those who love us and want to help us see our precious girl done right by.”

 

Many have asked how they can help. The most meaningful way to support Rebecca’s family is by easing the financial strain of funeral costs, travel, and other unexpected expenses.