Online Vigil Honors Teen Facing Death

10/1/08 (Excerpts from this devastating story of an innocent young lady)

Edith and Kevin Slack were preparing for their 16-year-old daughter to die last Friday.

Diagnosed with leukemia just three months ago, Carli Slack's cancer was in remission when she contracted a deadly fungus that now eats at her organs.

Doctors gave her parents no hope, but Edith and Kevin didn't listen.

We have been told today that our daughter Carli is going to die. Not by leukemia, not by the surgery, but by this fungus Mucor. ... There is nothing more they can do. Survival rate at this point of progression is zero. There have been no survivors of this. The question we have been asked is how we want to prepare for it. ... Carli needs one more miracle. We need one more miracle.

LEARN MORE

Go to www.carlislack.page.tl to read updates on her condition, check out pictures and sign a guest book.

WANT TO HELP?

The Sylvia Thomas Center is collecting donations on behalf of the Slack family. For information, call (813) 651-3150.

Read article here:http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/24/na-online-vigil-honors-teen-facing-death/