WHITEDAISY your poem really touched my heart because it is so true about Michelle. She led a hard life because of the traech and nasal prosthesis. She was very conscience about all of that. She was a very pretty lady with or without all the things that went wrong cosmetically. She was a beautiful person inside and out. She suffered from those who stared and talked about her all the way to health problems caused by the Wagener's Granulomatosis. She was cremated because she didn't want to be seen in death as she was seen in living. She didn't want to come to see me because I had roommates. She was afraid I would be embarrassed which I would NOT be at all! I have never known her without the traech. I remember her with her "real" nose but the prosthesis wouldn't have bothered me because I knew what went wrong. It bothered me because she was so sick in prior years. Thanks so much for the poem!

I have a picture of her and I am going to print that poem and reframe the picture so I can put that poem beside her picture. If I keep the badge I will put it in the frame as well.