Once Upon a time, there lived an awesome woman. She was smart, funny, beautiful, and charismatic. She met a man, fell in love, and married him. Together, they had a beautiful baby girl, the spitting image of her mother.
Then she got sick.
The doctors told her she had LAM disease (Lymphangioleiomyomatosis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphangioleiomyomatosis] It would continue to worsen and destroy her lung capacity and her ability to absorb oxygen from the air she breathed in. She would need a lung transplant.
And so she got sicker.
The man she'd married grew bored with this. He found another woman to make him happy again, and heartbro