Patrick Gage Kelley

Beth, Sarah, and Kerri Together.

The girl on the right in the above picture is Kerri, who I became friends with when my sister met her on the first day of kindergarten. Kerri and I have been friends nearly as long, something like sixteen years, two thirds of my life.

This past Christmas, as we always do at Christmas time, all of my North Tonawanda friends came over, and Kerri told us that her sister Beth had had surgery and was recovering. Her twenty-seven year old sister, above on the left, had brain surgery. Brain surgery because she had realized something was strange with her vision, and within days was being operated on after an MRI showed a brain tumor.

Now, ten months later, an easy recovery was not to be, instead five surgeries, a radiation program, memory loss, and now heart problems have followed. Here is the whole story, written by Kerri’s mom, Lois.

This past weekend, the Friends of Beth Hayes held a fundraising banquet for her, back in NT, which I could not attend. However, I have to applaud everyone who is supporting Beth, and the amount of community support she has received as she goes through this, and to tell Beth that we are all thinking about her and wishing the very best to the older sister, of my oldest friend.

Donations are also being accepted on Beth’s behalf here.