hi everyone! just a reminder that Linda’s Celebration of Life is this Saturday (9/9, her birthday) at 12pm at Azalea Park in Roswell, GA. nothing formal, everyone is welcome. think picnic meets funeral meets birthday party.
if you want you can bring some good food, games to play or a kayak. and of course your favorite Linda memories to share. 💙
I hope to see you all there and honor the amazing life Linda lived. she inspired so many of us. made us laugh, made us cry, made us feel seen. I’m grateful we can do the same for her, one more time.
more info: bit.ly/lindapalooza
-sarah
Arrangements for Linda’s Celebration of Life (and birthday party) are now available. I hope you’ll be able to join us and celebrate the incredible, incomparable life Linda lived.
bit.ly/lindapalooza
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Our sister. Our friend. Our aunt. Linda left us at 8pm today. Please join us in celebrating by living your life to the fullest, saying yes to every adventure, never taking a single day for granted, and spending as much time as possible exploring the beauty of Mother Nature. ❤️
Our girl is still with us. She's comfortable and pain-free, but her heart rate has been 180+ for many hours. She is surrounded by all of her family and closest friends. I will make sure to update everyone when she passes. But know she is wrapped up in our love and very much at peace. ❤️
It is unimaginable to write this update, but I know how many of you are praying for and supporting Linda Lu right now.
Based on the minimal progress in the last 5 days, with her doctors, family and friends we have decided to remove Linda from life support tomorrow to ensure she doesn't needlessly suffer. We know (directly from Linda) that this was her wish.
This week has been nothing short of torture for all of us that love Linda so fully. But knowing that she lived her life to the maximum every day brings so much comfort. It would mean the world to us if you could share your favorite memories with Linda in the comments.
As we head into the hardest day of our lives, please know that we will surround Linda with so much peace and love. She will not be alone. We will be bringing Pita into the hospital to be with her. She will be surrounded by her closest family and friends.
In the coming days and weeks we will work on a plan for a celebration of life for the one and only Linda Lu. It won't be a formal funeral, but we will party to celebrate the best person we have ever known. If you have photos or videos you'd like included in her memorial, please email them to [email protected].
While this is undoubtedly the hardest decision we've ever made, we know "there are things far worse than death." And we are finding comfort in the love Linda gave us and the life of adventure she lived.
From the depths of my heart—thank you, each of you, for being part of her beautiful story. In the same way Linda has touched each of us, you have touched her. That impact is eternal, and I am deeply grateful for it. The special moments, beautiful memories, belly-aching laughter... I hope these stay with us in these difficult days, and for many years to come.
Linda's legacy is so worth carrying forward. I hope you'll join us in doing that. Each time you go on an adventure or look at the stars or befriend a stranger or wander aimlessly in nature... she will be with you.
All of my love, always.
— @sarahkersting@tu_lu@midwestmama88
Hi everyone. This is @sarahkersting posting for Linda. This is a difficult post to write, but it was important to myself and her family to share an update with her friends. Linda suffered a devastating brain aneurysm rupture and was taken to Wellstar North Fulton by ambulance a little after 1am on Tuesday morning. She has been in a medical coma since then with little to no responsiveness or meaningful brain activity.
She underwent an emergency brain surgery her first day here to try to prevent the aneurysm from rupturing again. In that surgery they discovered she has two aneurysms, one on each of the arteries leading to her basilar artery that feeds her brain stem. They could only repair one of the two, as she needs one artery to remain open to feed her brain.
Since then she's had a host of other issues pop up, but none as vital as her brain damage and responsiveness. While we still are keeping hope, there is no delicate way to say that Linda needs nothing short of a miracle right now.
Linda's family and close friends have been with her every minute of every day. She is not alone and her baby Pita is being well-loved. But we do ask that you please keep her, her family, and her friends in your thoughts and prayers. Send healing vibes into the universe for her. The next 24 hours will be critical to next steps and difficult decisions.
If you have any messages or videos you'd like me to read to Linda, please feel free to text her cell. I am checking her phone regularly. Sending each of you all of our love and gratitude for loving Linda so well.
Spent nearly two weeks roaming aimlessly through varying desert landscape surviving off tamales, tacos, and donuts. No questions will be answered about the "trails" because I also don't know where I was.
