Family, friends ask people to send birthday cards to 4-year-old girl with terminal cancer
Doctors diagnosed a Wisconsin 4-year-old with terminal brain cancer in October and her family was told she might only have about six weeks to live. A family friend is calling on the community to send birthday cards to surprise Delaney with on her fifth birthday.
By Kendall Keys
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PEWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WISN) — Doctors diagnosed a Pewaukee 4-year-old with terminal brain cancer in October and her family was told she might only have about six weeks to live.
“Your heart stops for a minute. The world stops. You can’t breathe, you just try to process it. She’s four, you know?” said Heather Krings, about her daughter, Delaney Krings.
Her family is trying to make her final birthday special.
“She brought light and love to people. That’s why she’s our angel. And, apparently, she’s being called elsewhere to finish her angel work,” Heather Krings said.
Delaney is at Children’s Hospital with her father watching over her. Her mom and dad take turns staying with her, so she is never alone.
That’s how she’s spending her days and nights until she goes home for hospice care next week.
“You can’t really convey to a kid that they won’t be around much longer. So she knows she’s in the hospital because of the ‘owies’ in her head,” Heather Krings said.
Delaney’s family is rallying behind her to make her Dec. 16 birthday extra special.
A family friend is calling on the community to send birthday cards to surprise Delaney with on her fifth birthday.
They’re on a mission to collect a card from every continent.
Her mother told WISN 12 News they are well on their way, with cards pouring in from even as far as the U.K. They are hoping to receive a card from Antarctica.
“On the maps that we have up, we have stickers to put for all of the locations for where the cards have come from, so Laney can see that she’s got love from all over the world from people she doesn’t even know. And it has taken off. I believe there were 400 cards in the mail today,” Heather Krings said.
They hope to keep Delaney smiling and laughing for as long as possible.
“As long as she still knows what’s going on, she can laugh, she can hear, she can see, she knows us, she remembers us. That clock, you have to ignore it because what’s our purpose here? To make whatever time she has left as best as we can,” Heather Krings said.
There is a GofundMe set up to support the Krings family during this time.
If you would like to send a card, mail it to:
Delaney Krings C/O Shorewest Realtors 1296 Summit Ave. Oconomowoc, WI 53066
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