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For Baby Lillian The Wachowski family deeply mourns the loss of Lillian Ludwig, baby daughter of Jim and Melissa Ludwig of Dark Sword Miniatures. We have been friends with Jim since he started Dark Sword Miniatures, worked with him on Gen Con miniatures events, I have painted his Elmore dragons from the beginning, and he supported us through the loss of our own business and my cancer treatments. Jim has always made me smile and kept an upbeat attitude. It is heartbreaking what they are going through. The following is his announcements of the news, and still, through it all, I can see the Jim that I know, doing what's needed, with love. Please take a moment, pause, and give a quick prayer, or send a quick thought, of love and compassion for Jim and Melissa. ~Sue Wachowski, PaintMinion Lillian Grace Ludwig (our daughter) left this world holding the hand of God at 8:41 pm CST last night - 01/14/2008. She peacefully died in our arms as we talked to her telling her how much we love her and how amazing our exactly 100 days to almost the minute were before she had her incident at Daycare on Monday where she stopped breathing while sleeping. She then held on for 3 long days as a last gift to us so we could say our goodbyes and let our friends/family say their goodbyes. She was such a little trooper trying to breathe on her own and fight through this. She just could not breath enough to sustain herself on her own after the brain damage. There were glimmers of hope here and there, but the damage to her brain was so devastating from the initial daycare incident, all of her upper brain functions were gone. Melissa and I will never be the same as sharing our brief time with Lillian has changed us forever. They were the 100 most amazing days of our lives and also the most devastating at the end. Please see the attached pics we took the night before the incident (The Geek Shirt pic was from approx 2 months old and not really funny at all). She was so happy and so talkative. She just the same the morning we took her to daycare. We have no answers yet except some sort of SIDS-type attack that happened at Daycare. It is so tough to type through the tears but I wanted to get something to everyone so you can all feel the calming peace that Melissa and I felt as we spent our last two hours with her alone reading her stories, giving her the full-body massage that she loves so much (feet especially) and just telling her how much we love her and how many people are praying for her. Looking across the bed at my wife lovingly rubbing lotion on our little baby girl was one of the most touching and beautiful things I have ever witnessed in my life as we were so peaceful with her in those final hours. We then sat down with her and held her so tight and told her once again how much we will miss her and how heartbroken we are that this tragic event occurred. Lillian has donated her heart valves and possibly her corneas to help other babies in need. Her final act of love will be helping out another family so their little child can hopefully pull through a terrible situation and live a happy & full life. Lillian is now looking down upon us all from heaven and she is filled with all of our love and the love of God. She is at peace and she is waiting for Melissa and I to join her when our time comes to be called home. And further information on services for Lillian: The "short obit" was posted today with the full obit coming on Sunday. http://www.legacy.com/StarTribune/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=122911169 The Wake is from 5-8 PM CST on Sunday night at Evans Nordby Funeral Home in Osseo MN. Prayer Service at 7 pm. Address: 34 Second St. NE, Osseo, MN 55369 - phone 763-424-4000 The Funeral mass at St. Gerard Church (where we were married and Lillian was baptized 1 month ago) starts at 11 am CST on Monday morning with a viewing at 10am CST for those that could not attend the wake. A lunch will be served afterwards. St Gerard Church
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Phone: The following was sent to us from a person who we shared our loss of Lillian with. It is quite beautiful and really sums up how Melissa and I feel about Lillian's early passing when we are not crying about her loss to us and the things we will never be able to watch her do as she grew up into a young lady: "Precious is life. Life may be long or short. When a baby is taken and sadness and grief overwhelm think of that life. A babies life is love, attention, touch and love returned. They are joy, they are the basic needs of food and water and shelter and faith and love. This is what they know. This is ONLY what they learn. They never learn of the pain, the heartache, the destruction or wars in this world. They never see the pain of person hurting a person or a person hurting animals. They do not know the fight for survival nor the death of anything. They live for a short brief time in the light of this world and they take that with them when they leave. Sometimes a life ends and time runs out and so the soul is sent back to finish some unknown task. A babies short life may be just what is needed to fulfill that last act. Take heart that such lives become the cherubim spoken of in song and story and depicted in paintings. She is now a little angel up there that is watching over the family and she takes great comfort in that. Your beautiful little girl awaits you and she will be there for you and she will whisper in the ear of the all powerful for you and she will love you in the purest form forever. You were her parents. You showed her the best of the human spirit. How could she not?"
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