Click the image above to return to the Hannah main page. Hannah is now 7 years old, and found out she had cancer a year ago. Her body is very sick, but her spirit is incredible. Reading Cindi's emails it is easy to see what a special girl she is. The daily ups and downs in a situation like this are unbelievable, and those of us just watching on the side can only shake our heads and hug our own kids a little tighter. It's very hard to imagine what it must be like for Terry and Cindi, living this every day. The decisions they must face are unimaginable to most of us - but it makes it very clear where Hannah gets her strength and spirit from. Cindi takes time almost every day to email out an update on Hannah's progress (or not) to her family who cannot be with her, and those emails are available through the links to the right. All our thoughts are with them... The letters that appear in the monthly links are emails that Hannah's mother sends out to her family. I am part of her family (my mother and Hannah's mother are cousins) and I receive these emails. Many prayer chains have sprouted out from these emails - everyone in her family forwards them on to people they know who want to find out how Hannah is doing and to pray for her. I am powerless to do anything for Hannah. I can visit her in the hospital (I just came from there this evening) and I can pray for her, but otherwise I cant **DO** anything. Websites are a hobby of mine. Aylajane.com is my personal website I use to share pictures of my son with family and friends who are spread across the country - it is not a commercial site and I have yet to figure out how to make it searchable even if I wanted to promote it. Feeling helpless to do anything else for Hannah, I added her story to my website - it is the smallest and only thing I can do for her. Since this whole thing started, my friends and coworkers are constantly asking how she is doing and what the latest word is. Rather than explaining a lot or forwarding on the email even more, I post all of her mothers emails here and sent them the link. This site was never intended for general public viewing, and I have had to find myself editing out her family's personal information (phone numbers etc) as the link spreads. Hannah's mother has seen this site, but doesnt visit it regularly. She has simply continued to do what she always has - email her family to keep them up to date on Hannah's condition. She has thanked me for doing this for Hannah, but she is not in any way involved in posting these. I also think the emails she sends out are cathartic for her, a way of coping. It is obvious from the emails that she sends out more during the "bad" times (and as she always says, "No news is good news" to explain lapses in her emails). Most of her emails are written in the middle of the night while watching Hannah sleep. I get up for work about 5:30am and post whatever arrived during the night so that the people at my work and my mom's work can read it. It also helps her keep from having to constantly repeat details on how Hannah is doing to everyone who comes to visit - most have read her emails before they come. ANYONE WISHING TO DONATE MONEY TO HANNAH OR HER PARENTS MAY SEND IT TO ST. LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ROOM 9W50 (FOR NOW AT LEAST) IN CARE OF HANNAH KEETON'S PARENTS (CINDI AND TERRY). Her parents - who of course are hurting financially from the past year - are much more interested in prayers of healing for Hannah, since the doctors have made clear as recently as tonight that a miracle is her only hope. They would happily forgo every cent they have to keep her here a little longer. IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS WEBSITE AND HANNAH, PLEASE EMAIL ME DIRECTLY AT judie@aylajane.com. Judie