Day by Day with Parkinson's and Peripheral Neuropathy: One of 2,996

Day by Day with Parkinson's and Peripheral Neuropathy

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy in 2006, but my symptoms seemed to take a turn in a different direction in late 2007. The current diagnosis is Essential Myoclonus. You will find record here of a my journey - coping with the testing, the medicines, nutrition, digestion problems, exercise, the emotions, and no telling what else!

Saturday, September 09, 2006

One of 2,996 - A Life Cut Short on 9/11

Norma Khan was on American Airlines, flight 77, on her way home to Reston, Virginia, on September 11, 2001, when that plane was hijacked and aimed at the Pentagon. She was 45 years old. She had worked as an organizer for fundraiser programs for non-profit organizations, and had been heavily involved in the Reston Multicultural Festival, held each September in Reston. She was a single parent with a 13 year old son, Imran.

Several people have left memorial comments on various 9/11 sites, praising Norma as a warm, loving woman who cared about people. She was a good mother to her son. There is no way that I can properly pay tribute to this lady that I did not know, but the many lives she touched during her lifetime are a living tribute to her that will last forever.

If you'd like to read more tributes written by bloggers to honor the 2,996 people who died tragically on 9/11, you'll find the whole list here.

4 Comments:

At 9/10/2006 10:08 AM , slackermommy said...

So very sad that she lost her life. My heart goes out to her son. Do we know how he is doing?
At 9/10/2006 12:47 PM , Dirty Butter said...

I wondered about her son, too, slackermommy. He'd be graduating from High School now, but I didn't want to intrude on his privacy, so I didn't try to contact him. We can only pray that his extended family was able to help him deal with all the horrible feelings he must have had then, and I'm sure still has.
At 9/10/2006 3:54 PM , Janey Loree said...

I too, thought about Imran. It must be the mother in us. Dirty Butter thank you for doing this tribute, letting us know that others besides close family members care!
At 9/10/2006 4:10 PM , Dirty Butter said...

I don't normally do things like this, Janey, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was the very kind of person who needed to do it. Ordinary people honoring ordinary people who died in a most unordinary way.