Have a Nice Day and Smile All the Way!: Sunday February 1st, 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Sunday February 1st, 2009

To all those who read this...

Tamra want you to know just how much she has appreciated your thoughts, prayers and kind words. She also wants everyone to know just how much she loves each and everyone of you!

At this time Tamra wants you all to know that she is at peace with her decision to let go of this earth and return to her Heavenly Father. She is no longer at battle with herself, she also says that she has made peace with her Heavenly Father. She feels it is her time to go, knowing it is now in the hands of God when that time will be.

While she continues to have good days and bad days, she is now at peace with what is to come.

Thank you to everyone who has given their all in prayers, thoughts, visits, cards, phone calls to Tamra, our Mom. We feel very blessed to be surrounded by all who love her.

We will continue to update as often as we can... thank you again... with love, the Tapp's

5 comments:

D and Brittany Whipple said...: We love you, too, Tamra. We will continue to keep you and your family in our prayers.

Love,
Brittany and Family; February 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Joey said...: Tamra, I just want you to know how much I Love you and appreciate everything you have done for me. I will never forget your smiley face and amazingly bubbly personality. And don't think that I don't remember my note and promise to you. You will always have a mansion in my heart!

Love Joey; February 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Laura said...: Hi Tamra,

Just want you to know that today and everyday I am thinking of you and sending hugs your way. I love you. We are friends forever!!

Laura; February 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Pauline said...: I am so glad to hear that, that you are at peace with what Heavenly Father has in store for you He does see the greater picture in which we can't see. You have left a wonderful legacy with family, friends and with whom ever you have come in contact with. I have wonderful memories of the Leeds Ward YW and what an example you were to the YW at that time. I love you and pray for you.; February 2, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Anonymous said...: This is so hard to hear as we want to keep you here with us. I'm so thankful you are at peace with what may come. The Lord hears our prayers and loves us. He wants us to be happy. He has so much in store for us. Our time here on earth is soooo short in comparison to eternity. I feel blessed to maybe get 100 years (if I am lucky). I love you Tamra. I know the that this is a very difficult time for you and your family. You are a fighter and have smiled your way through many battles this life has brought you. Your cheerful personality has always been a delight to be around. Thanks for making us your yummy chili after snowboarding!! I will always love and appreciate you!! I'm sorry for your pain and hope you may be comforted!! With much love, hugs and kisses----Kristen; February 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM

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Tamra Juretich Tapp

Our loving, wife, mother & grandmother age 67 passed away on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at home after a brief battle with Pancreatic Cancer.

She was born July 16th, 1941 in Murray Utah to Matt & Claudia Juretich and later married Jackie Thomas Tapp February 20th, 1960 in Coalville Utah.
Tamra began high school at West High and later graduated from Jordan High in 1959.

She started dancing at the age of 3, was a member of the Jordan High Dance Company with her best friend Penny Walker and later preformed on the Ted Mack show as a beautiful gifted young woman. As a young mother she taught ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance in the basement of her home on Coventry Lane and had a positive influence on the children she taught.

Tamra loved her time serving in the Young Women’s program of the Church. Her greatest joy was teaching and laughing with the Young Women she served. She especially had fond memories as Stake camp director while living in Silver Reef, Utah.

Tamra enjoyed working with her friends at Sunfirst Bank in Hurricane and St. George Utah, where she was always the life of the party. She especially enjoyed working alongside Mont Humphries who she considered one of her closest friends.
Most of all Tamra loved her children, grand children and her husband Jack of 48 years and will miss them dearly!
Tamra’s catch phrase throughout her life was “have a nice day and smile all the way” and loved anything that was bright and sparkly. She was always thinking of others and had the innate ability to make others feel comfortable around her.

Instead of flowers Tamra has requested that you provide an act of kindness for someone in need.

Thank you to the staff at Intermountain Healthcare and Rocky Mountain Healthcare who assisted with her care. Specifically we would like to thank her nurse Julie and CNA Sally who took such good care of her during the end of her earthly life.

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1/12/09

About a month ago Tamra had a recurrence of some back pain which she has had on and off for years. She had some physical therapy done but it had little effect. Over the following weeks she was very tired and sleepy. The pain had progressed over time and so she had Misty take her into the St George hospital on December 31 to get at CT scan to see if the liver was the issue of her pain. The nurses at the hospital sent her home and said they would send the scans to the doctors for review.

The doctors called on the January 5^th to check on here pain and suggested that she come in for a biopsy her liver on the January 6^th. She had this done and had to wait until January 8th for the results. Upon receiving the results of the biopsy the family doctor suggested we meet a hospital oncologist because he had concerns about what he was seeing on the CT scan and what showed up in the biopsy results.

An appointment was set up with the Oncologist today at the Huntsman Cancer wing here in St George. Without knowing fully all the medical lingo here is what we learned today. Apparently as some point (nobody knows exactly when) a cancer started at the bottom head of her pancreas. It has traveled from it starting point to just outside the pancreas and has since spread to the liver. Unfortunately there is not a specific treatment for where this cancer started. This is not to say that there are not treatments that can be done because there are but there is no chance of a complete cure.

Tamra has decided on a course of treatment as suggested by the oncologist. Her pain is being managed at the moment and will be modified as needed. It is her and our wish that she be kept pain free even at the cost maybe losing a few months of her life. We will be exploring all treatments as some may work and others may not. We all have agreed on this course and just want what is best for Tamra.

As her treatments and her condition changes I hope either myself, Bart, Misty or Shane will update you all with any new information. Jack is obviously very distressed by this news and I would hope you would all keep him in your prayers as well as he loves Tamra dearly!

On a personal note I would like to ask one favor of all of you. We are creating this blog mainly for Tamra to be able to log in and read messages from her loved ones and be able to send her feelings back to them when she is feeling up to it. So if you could, please do not use this board to leave messages for other family members. Misty and I have found many of our relatives on Face book and love catching up with them there. And just so you know this is also one of Tamra’s biggest wishes as she expressed to us today. She has always wanted the family to stay together and to keep in touch!

Finally, my thanks to all my family for making a bad situation bearable. To my older brother Bart and his wife Pennie. Thank you for being the strong ones and helping organize all that you have. To my little brother Shane and his wife Jamie. Thank you for taking such good care of both Tamra and Jack now and for being there for them over the years while Bart and I have been in Salt Lake. Also thank you to my little sister Misty and her husband Doug for always doing what you can to do help and helping Tamra and Jack whenever they needed you. I love you all!

Chet

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