The Spirit With-in

Memorials

 

Cheryl Dean

Cheryl was new in Centereach High School, Long Island, New York.

Cheryl was taking dancing lessons playing soft- ball and she was in the Girl Scouts.

She loved horses, deer and all animals, and wanted to become a Veterinarian.

Cheryl has two brothers Michael 14 and Billy 17.

She liked the group Smashing Pumpkins.

A beautiful Babe	A charming Little Girl

She was 16 and a senior introduced her to heroin. She tried a rehab but never completed it. When she turned 18 she went into cardiac arrest and had an anoxic brain injury on Oct 5, 1997. She turned 24 on July 11. 2003

Cheryl still can notwalk, talk, move her legs or arms and is blind and on a feeding tube. She also has severe spasticity. Even though she did not die, I still feel as though I lost my beautiful daughter.
Or did I really loose her the day she started using heroin.
She does smile when I come to visit her, but I'm not sure she knows who I am or who she is.

6 Years On

It makes me happy knowing what happened to Cheryl
in her life can make a difference to others.
It is very hard to see my daughter like this everyday.
It has been over 6years now and I don't think Cheryl
will improve, unless there is a miracle.She does laugh
out-loud sometimes when I visit her. I am still not
sure if she knows I am her mother
Cheryl has cortical blindness. It is like taking a picture
with a camera but there is no film. She can see but does not know
what she is seeing. She didn't get enough oxygen to the occipital
lobe,which is the vision. She is also on a feeding tube and cannot
move any part of her body purposefully. Sometimes she moves,
but it is because she startles easily.
The Life of my beautiful girl ! I think ended with the introduction of Heroin.

Connie loving mother of Cheryl