email from Dani, 4 days before she suffered the cardiac arrest that led to her brain injury, 3/17/2004, 6:11 PM

uncle,

i have a friend i recently found out pukes up everything she eats. any advice on how to talk some sense into a crazy girl ... she is really sick i think both body and mind.

email from Dani: Sun 6/17/2001 3:30 PM

"If liberty means anything at all, ...

email from Dani: Sun 6/17/2001 4:47 PM

my search for "God knows what" (perhaps it is truth, or reason, or knowledge) has lead me to Nietzsche.

This isn't explicitly a Dani "Moment" but I thought it might be interesting to readers of this site. While I was playing with Google this afternoon in trying to determine which combination of keywords brings Dani's World to the first page I came across a rather interesting essay which appears to have been written by Dani when she was in high school. The essay deals with the ethics of cloning and was apparantly chosen by her as an oral report/presentation during her Junior year of high school. Of interest to readers may be what Dani says in the essay...

While walking with Dani after lunch today, I asked where she went to college, then suggested she look at her shirt. She looked down at her U of I shirt with the chief on it and answered "Illinois"

Then I asked her what she was studying?

There is no order to this list and it will never be complete. Some of you work there and offer kind words and a smile for Dani every day but I don't know your names.

Thank you for being a second family to Dani during this difficult time. Recalling and recording the acts of kindness shown to my niece during her stay there would require a large book. The names below are the ones floating through a mind that daily tries to solve what appears to be unsolvable, drives 180 miles, and then sleeps too little.

Forgive me if your name is not yet here. Your contribution to Dani's current life is invaluable. You know who you are. I speak for Aunt Lesa, Aunt Lollie, and myself. God Bless You All.

Nurse Joan

Nurse Star

Nurse Gertrude ...

I have spent many hours inside Kernan Hospital's Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Unit. The first thing one comes to realize is that this isn't the stereotypical model of a hospital we have come to know.

Dani began her "one day I want to marry" dialog tonight and I stopped her when she started off with "he must be rich".

Uncle Lee: Dani? If you met a smart, handsome man that really loved you, do you think it would be so important that he be rich?

Watching a 90 lb girl who can't tell you what day of the week it is overwhelm her audience in less the 30 seconds was a scene that will

email from Dani, Fri 6/15/2001 7:33 PM

As i am partial to list that will be the format of
this correspondence. well here goes:

1. I love my ece class.