Sherry Lininger:  

After high school my parents decided that I needed to attended the Hillsdale FWB Bible College in Moore, Ok. After college I moved back in with mom and dad until I found a job and was eventually able to buy my own home. Living on my own and being single was great. I was perfectly content but (against my wishes) a friend of mine set me up on a "blind date". On New Years Eve in 1989 I meet a guy named Ron. We became friends. Ron lived in Fayetteville AR (about an hour away from where I lived) so we saw each other on weekends when he visited his parents in Ft. Smith. In June of 1991 we became engaged and married in November of 1991. In February of 1995 we had a set of twin boys. They were born with complications and were premature. In 1997 I started my own business, as a result of a friends suggestion. In February of 1999 Ron and I had a daughter. Our little princess! In September 2000 our fourth child was born. The other three were so laid back but it was obvious that this one was going to have an attitude right from the start, and she does! In 2003 during the Thanksgiving Holiday our suspicion of mom's cancer was confirmed. She did have lymphoma cancer and it was one of two non-curable forms. Although mom had a stem cell replacement a few years ago, she is now waiting to have a complete bone marrow transplant. Without a bone marrow transplant the outlook for her is not good. April 15th 2010 will be the date for the beginning of the transplant. Mom passed away in February of 2011. She had a long battle, she fought hard but in the end it wasn't the cancer so much that got her as it was the rejection of the bone marr...Expand for more