Today I found out that Sydney's first ballet teacher had passed away. This is devastating to Syd and me. Sydney started ballet at three and has taken classes ever since. She takes dance classes everyday, she's performed in five recitals and one proffesional show, none of which would have been possible without her very first teacher...Miss Erica. Erica was the very first person to introduce Sydney to dance and Sydney loves to dance.
Erica was always very slender and then over the last couple years she always had an oxygen tank with her. She had stopped teaching the younger girls becuase she was too weak to demonstrate the choreography, however she still taught the competition team and Sydney always wanted Erica to teach her again. We would see Erica once a week because she taught the class after Sydney's. One day I asked her why she was on oxygen and she explained how she had survived cancer but the radiation had damaged her lungs and now she was awaiting a transplant. Earlier this month she entered the hospital and we kept asking about her. Even while she was in the hospital her dance students were a priority and she was still emailing competition information for them.
She passed away before Christmas. She was still very young and had so much more to share with this world. It is very heartbreaking.
I told Sydney because I didn't want her to find out from anyone else. Telling her the news was almost unbearable. Sydney has been dealing with so much these last six months I just didn't want to have to tell her one more sad thing. When I told her she just looked at me with her Syd wisdom and said she was sad and that she would miss Erica.
At the end of the day God received an amazing angel who loves to dance and will be missed dearly here. I know in my home Miss Erica will be remembered fondly. As for Sydney she will always be grateful to the first teacher who took a scared little three year old and helped her to become a confidant and talented dancer and who truly showed her the power of loving what you do.
Thank You Miss Erica, Rest in Peace
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