This is the story of our daughter, Melissa Clare Fallin who died January 27, 2011.  I am starting this blog as a journal of sorts, I find that I need to write about my feelings. 

From the time Melissa was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, we thought about the prognosis.  As she grew and hospitalizations became more frequent and more serious, we thought about her death.  But I never thought about what it would be like when she was gone.

But this is not so much the story of how she died, but rather how she lived and how we lived with a child diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.