Tanya was a sweet young Angel.
Born in Oakland, CA, on October 7, 1983. She moved to CO when she was 1 year old. She was a beautiful baby full of joy and life. Tanya and her family moved to Beaverton, OR when she was 10. She loved to be outside and especially loved animals. One of her favorite things to do growing up was to visit the zoo or go to the lake and feed the ducks. Even as she grew older, she still loved animals having had many pets of her own. Her favorite being an Alaskan Malamute named Shilo and also a cat named Sage. She would often be found wrestling Shilo or snuggling up to Sage. Tanya also loved her two little sisters. When each sister was born, Tanya became a little mother full of love and protectiveness. Her sisters loved this about her.
In school Tanya was very bright and always brought home good grades in the Talented and Gifted program. She liked to write stories and began writing poetry at a young age. She would wake up in the night with a poem in her head and have to write it down right away so as to capture it. At the age of 14 she had her first poem published and by the time she was 17 she had 3 more published. In her 10th grade year she was nominated to be a Student Ambassador for the state of Oregon. She was prepared to go to several different countries to represent her state the summer following her Junior year at Folsom High School.
Tanya came home from her part time job at the Folsom Outlet Mall one night and stayed up that night discussing topics with her Dad, appearing to be feeling just fine. She finally got tired and went to bed around midnight. She woke up around 3:00 a.m. with flu-like symptoms: vomiting, headache, nausea. The doctor was called at 9:00 that morning but they could not get her in until 4:30 that afternoon. By 10:30 that morning she was feeling a little better. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, I saw a dark reddish spot on her hip and asked her if she had bumped into something as it looked like the beginnings of a dark bruise. She said she didn't remember but it sure was sore. That was the only spot I saw. By 4:30 when she was to go to the doctor, she was getting bad again and couldn't stand up without vomiting. She said she was sure it was just the flu and didn't feel like going to the doctor. I told her if she got any worse we were going to the emergency room. Then, within a half an hour, at 5:00, she called me into the restroom and showed me that she was covered with the reddish spots. I knew at that point that she had Meningitis and took her and her sisters to the Folsom Hospital emergency room. A spinal tap quickly showed us the worst of news, it was in her blood, known as Sepsis. She deteriorated quickly as her internal organs began to shut down. The most she would do was ask me for some ice once in a while. All we could do was keep her out of pain. The doctors tried everything. She was on two of the strongest antibiotics you could get and had several bags of platelets. To no avail, the doctor told me at 4 a.m. the next morning that if anyone wanted to see her they better come to the hospital now. My husband had spent half of the night taking our other two children around trying to find an antibiotic they could take. By 6:00 a.m. my beautiful first born daughter was gone. Just 27 hours from the beginning symptoms.
Cause of death: viral meningitis.
Born in Oakland, CA, on October 7, 1983. She moved to CO when she was 1 year old. She was a beautiful baby full of joy and life. Tanya and her family moved to Beaverton, OR when she was 10. She loved to be outside and especially loved animals. One of her favorite things to do growing up was to visit the zoo or go to the lake and feed the ducks. Even as she grew older, she still loved animals having had many pets of her own. Her favorite being an Alaskan Malamute named Shilo and also a cat named Sage. She would often be found wrestling Shilo or snuggling up to Sage. Tanya also loved her two little sisters. When each sister was born, Tanya became a little mother full of love and protectiveness. Her sisters loved this about her.
In school Tanya was very bright and always brought home good grades in the Talented and Gifted program. She liked to write stories and began writing poetry at a young age. She would wake up in the night with a poem in her head and have to write it down right away so as to capture it. At the age of 14 she had her first poem published and by the time she was 17 she had 3 more published. In her 10th grade year she was nominated to be a Student Ambassador for the state of Oregon. She was prepared to go to several different countries to represent her state the summer following her Junior year at Folsom High School.
Tanya came home from her part time job at the Folsom Outlet Mall one night and stayed up that night discussing topics with her Dad, appearing to be feeling just fine. She finally got tired and went to bed around midnight. She woke up around 3:00 a.m. with flu-like symptoms: vomiting, headache, nausea. The doctor was called at 9:00 that morning but they could not get her in until 4:30 that afternoon. By 10:30 that morning she was feeling a little better. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, I saw a dark reddish spot on her hip and asked her if she had bumped into something as it looked like the beginnings of a dark bruise. She said she didn't remember but it sure was sore. That was the only spot I saw. By 4:30 when she was to go to the doctor, she was getting bad again and couldn't stand up without vomiting. She said she was sure it was just the flu and didn't feel like going to the doctor. I told her if she got any worse we were going to the emergency room. Then, within a half an hour, at 5:00, she called me into the restroom and showed me that she was covered with the reddish spots. I knew at that point that she had Meningitis and took her and her sisters to the Folsom Hospital emergency room. A spinal tap quickly showed us the worst of news, it was in her blood, known as Sepsis. She deteriorated quickly as her internal organs began to shut down. The most she would do was ask me for some ice once in a while. All we could do was keep her out of pain. The doctors tried everything. She was on two of the strongest antibiotics you could get and had several bags of platelets. To no avail, the doctor told me at 4 a.m. the next morning that if anyone wanted to see her they better come to the hospital now. My husband had spent half of the night taking our other two children around trying to find an antibiotic they could take. By 6:00 a.m. my beautiful first born daughter was gone. Just 27 hours from the beginning symptoms.
Cause of death: viral meningitis.
Tanya was a sweet young Angel.
Born in Oakland, CA, on October 7, 1983. She moved to CO when she was 1 year old. She was a beautiful baby full of joy and life. Tanya and her family moved to Beaverton, OR when she was 10. She loved to be outside and especially loved animals. One of her favorite things to do growing up was to visit the zoo or go to the lake and feed the ducks. Even as she grew older, she still loved animals having had many pets of her own. Her favorite being an Alaskan Malamute named Shilo and also a cat named Sage. She would often be found wrestling Shilo or snuggling up to Sage. Tanya also loved her two little sisters. When each sister was born, Tanya became a little mother full of love and protectiveness. Her sisters loved this about her.
In school Tanya was very bright and always brought home good grades in the Talented and Gifted program. She liked to write stories and began writing poetry at a young age. She would wake up in the night with a poem in her head and have to write it down right away so as to capture it. At the age of 14 she had her first poem published and by the time she was 17 she had 3 more published. In her 10th grade year she was nominated to be a Student Ambassador for the state of Oregon. She was prepared to go to several different countries to represent her state the summer following her Junior year at Folsom High School.
Tanya came home from her part time job at the Folsom Outlet Mall one night and stayed up that night discussing topics with her Dad, appearing to be feeling just fine. She finally got tired and went to bed around midnight. She woke up around 3:00 a.m. with flu-like symptoms: vomiting, headache, nausea. The doctor was called at 9:00 that morning but they could not get her in until 4:30 that afternoon. By 10:30 that morning she was feeling a little better. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, I saw a dark reddish spot on her hip and asked her if she had bumped into something as it looked like the beginnings of a dark bruise. She said she didn't remember but it sure was sore. That was the only spot I saw. By 4:30 when she was to go to the doctor, she was getting bad again and couldn't stand up without vomiting. She said she was sure it was just the flu and didn't feel like going to the doctor. I told her if she got any worse we were going to the emergency room. Then, within a half an hour, at 5:00, she called me into the restroom and showed me that she was covered with the reddish spots. I knew at that point that she had Meningitis and took her and her sisters to the Folsom Hospital emergency room. A spinal tap quickly showed us the worst of news, it was in her blood, known as Sepsis. She deteriorated quickly as her internal organs began to shut down. The most she would do was ask me for some ice once in a while. All we could do was keep her out of pain. The doctors tried everything. She was on two of the strongest antibiotics you could get and had several bags of platelets. To no avail, the doctor told me at 4 a.m. the next morning that if anyone wanted to see her they better come to the hospital now. My husband had spent half of the night taking our other two children around trying to find an antibiotic they could take. By 6:00 a.m. my beautiful first born daughter was gone. Just 27 hours from the beginning symptoms.
Cause of death: viral meningitis.
Born in Oakland, CA, on October 7, 1983. She moved to CO when she was 1 year old. She was a beautiful baby full of joy and life. Tanya and her family moved to Beaverton, OR when she was 10. She loved to be outside and especially loved animals. One of her favorite things to do growing up was to visit the zoo or go to the lake and feed the ducks. Even as she grew older, she still loved animals having had many pets of her own. Her favorite being an Alaskan Malamute named Shilo and also a cat named Sage. She would often be found wrestling Shilo or snuggling up to Sage. Tanya also loved her two little sisters. When each sister was born, Tanya became a little mother full of love and protectiveness. Her sisters loved this about her.
In school Tanya was very bright and always brought home good grades in the Talented and Gifted program. She liked to write stories and began writing poetry at a young age. She would wake up in the night with a poem in her head and have to write it down right away so as to capture it. At the age of 14 she had her first poem published and by the time she was 17 she had 3 more published. In her 10th grade year she was nominated to be a Student Ambassador for the state of Oregon. She was prepared to go to several different countries to represent her state the summer following her Junior year at Folsom High School.
Tanya came home from her part time job at the Folsom Outlet Mall one night and stayed up that night discussing topics with her Dad, appearing to be feeling just fine. She finally got tired and went to bed around midnight. She woke up around 3:00 a.m. with flu-like symptoms: vomiting, headache, nausea. The doctor was called at 9:00 that morning but they could not get her in until 4:30 that afternoon. By 10:30 that morning she was feeling a little better. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, I saw a dark reddish spot on her hip and asked her if she had bumped into something as it looked like the beginnings of a dark bruise. She said she didn't remember but it sure was sore. That was the only spot I saw. By 4:30 when she was to go to the doctor, she was getting bad again and couldn't stand up without vomiting. She said she was sure it was just the flu and didn't feel like going to the doctor. I told her if she got any worse we were going to the emergency room. Then, within a half an hour, at 5:00, she called me into the restroom and showed me that she was covered with the reddish spots. I knew at that point that she had Meningitis and took her and her sisters to the Folsom Hospital emergency room. A spinal tap quickly showed us the worst of news, it was in her blood, known as Sepsis. She deteriorated quickly as her internal organs began to shut down. The most she would do was ask me for some ice once in a while. All we could do was keep her out of pain. The doctors tried everything. She was on two of the strongest antibiotics you could get and had several bags of platelets. To no avail, the doctor told me at 4 a.m. the next morning that if anyone wanted to see her they better come to the hospital now. My husband had spent half of the night taking our other two children around trying to find an antibiotic they could take. By 6:00 a.m. my beautiful first born daughter was gone. Just 27 hours from the beginning symptoms.
Cause of death: viral meningitis.
