ANOTHER YEAR HAS PASSED, AND NOW YOUR THREE YEARS OLD. YOU'VE PROVED THAT YOU COULD MAKE IT, AND YOUR STORY MUST BE TOLD.

ON AUGUST 3RD OF 96' A BABY GIRL WAS BORN, WE WERE GIVEN LITTLE HOPE FOR HER WHICH MADE US DEEPLY MOURN.

THE NAME OF THIS CHILD IS DIAMOND, SO BEAUTIFUL, YET SO FRAIL. HER CONDITION WAS LISTED CRITICAL AND HER FACE WAS VERY PALE.

SHE ARRIVED THREE MONTHS EARLY AND HER WEIGHT WAS ONLY TWO POUNDS, HER FIGHT FOR LIFE HAD JUST BEGUN WITH ITS MANY UPS AND DOWNS.

A TINY LITTLE BABY SHE WAS, YOU COULD HOLD HER IN ONE HAND, THEY SAID "THIS CHILD WON'T MAKE IT" AND A MIRACLE WAS IN GREAT DEMAND.

SHE WAS POKED AND PROBED SO MUCH AND HOOKED TO LIFE SUPPORT, SURROUNDED BY DOCTORS AND NURSES AND MACHINES OF EVERY SORT.

SHE HAD TO BE FLOWN TO BALTIMORE FOR THE BEST MEDICAL ATTENTION NEEDED, HER MOTHER WAS EVER SO FRANTIC AND TO GOD, SHE PRAYED AND PLEADED.

THEY TOLD US NOTHING POSITIVE AND SAID HER CHANCES WERE SLIM, BUT WE COULD NOT GIVE UP ON HER AND PRAYED THAT OUR PRAYERS WOULD WIN.

GOD HEARD AND ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS AND EASED OUR VERY DEEP SORROW, AS SHE MADE IT THRU THAT DAY AND CONTINUES TO FACE TOMORROW.

SHE STARTED HAVING SEIZURES WHICH CAUSED DAMAGE TO HER BRAIN, THEY SAID THAT SHE WOULD NEVER WALK, YET SHE STANDS WITH OUT A CANE.

THEY ALSO SAID SHE NEVER TALK NOT EVEN UTTER A WORD, BUT YOU WOULD REALLY BE AMAZED TO HEAR THE SOUNDS WE'VE HEARD.

SHE'S NOURISHED THRU A FEEDING TUBE THEY SAID SHE WOULD NEVER INGEST, BUT DIAMOND PROVED THEM WRONG AGAIN AND EATS HER PEARS THE BEST.

SHE'S HAD HER GOOD DAYS AND BAD, SHE'S BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL AND OUT, BUT THIS CHILD CLIMBS EVERY MOUNTAIN AND WILL MAKE IT WITHOUT A DOUBT!

TO PRINCESS DIAMOND, LOVE ALWAYS AUNT JANET COLWELL (7/99)