At the age of only 5, the doctors told little Elena Desserich that she was suffering from lung cancer and that she had only 135 days to live.
Even if the girl’s parents were suffering a lot, they did everything possible not to make the little one feel their stress. However, feeling the pain of her parents, Elena seemed to understand everything. “We wanted to protect her, so we decided not to tell her anything that was bothering us… Obviously, I never told her she was dying… We didn’t want to be driven by the disease, we wanted to focus on living in the family. During all this time, I did everything Elena wanted “, said Keith, the little girl’s father, in tears.
After the little girl’s death, the mother found all kinds of notes left by little Elena in the house before she died. Two years after the child’s death, the parents collected almost three large boxes of notes left by the little girl everywhere in the house. “I think that through the notes she wrote she wanted to convey all her love to us… Whenever we find a new note, we feel how she takes us in her arms,” said the girl’s mother.
