Few people have touched my heart in the last almost sixty years like this lady - Stephanie Nielson, or NieNie. In December of 2008 I discovered the NieNie Dialogues from a typewriter widget on some random blog. I looked it up and began to read the story of Stephanie and Christian Nielson's plane crash in Arizona in August of 2008. While Stephanie lay in an induced coma, burned over 80% of her body, her sisters not only took on the day to day care of her four children (Christian was also seriously burned in the crash), but they also kept up her blog by posting health updates and archived posts that has accrued since NieNie started her blog in November, 2004. It was shortly after I started reading the blog that it was announced that NieNie was out of the coma and well enough to come home to continue the long, painful recovery process. Her first post was on January 16, 2009 ... and she has posted regularly since then. She has shared the agony, depression, love, healing, humor, acceptance and most importantly, the faith that has allowed her to recover and to live her life as "the luckiest girl in the world". She tells her story in Heaven is Here - check here to see more. (This photo is the first she published of herself, thanking the anonymous person who knit her the cap.)
