Update:
We have some sad news to share with everyone on this Saturday. We’ve just learned that Jaiden passed away in Orlando last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Hiebert family at this time.
The family posted the following message on the Prayers for Jaiden Facebook page Saturday:
“This is the hardest post I will ever have to write. Our beautiful perfect Jaiden Marie was called home to heaven last night. We’re not sure how/why… it happened in her sleep.
She is no longer suffering. No more pain. She is forever preserved a BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT angel.
please please pray for our family. We are beyond devastated.”
A memorial fund has been set up by the family. Click here for more information.
Original Story:
About one year ago, Jaiden Hiebert’s parents thought she came down with the flu so they took her to the hospital. Twenty minutes later she was being airlifted to a hospital here in Lubbock.
Doctors told her parents, Amanda and Daniel Hiebert, Jaiden had strep meningitis.
“She’s the perfect little girl. Growing up she was always the happiest person in the world,” said Daniel.
The illness caused fluid to build up in her brain, causing severe brain stem damage.
Jaiden spent the next nine months in the hospital getting treatment before she was able to go home.
Before she got so sick, her passion was to make the world a better place. Something she still wants to this day.
Daniel said, “Her first day of kindergarten here in Texas, we dropped her off and there was this little girl who was afraid to leave her mom. So Jaiden left us and went to the little girl, gave her a hug and said ‘it’s okay I’ll be your friend, you don’t have to be afraid.'”
Jaiden is a little girl who simply wants everyone to get along and love each other.
Her other passion is a love for Disney princesses, which is why a crowd of friends and family were anxiously awaiting her arrival. To help celebrate, the Make-A-Wish foundation is sending her to Disney World.
“Jaiden has asked to go visit the princesses ever since she could talk,” said Amanda.
Her wish granters got to work making sure every moment of this wish would be spectacular for Jaiden and her family.
“She gets to meet all her princesses. She loves princesses and girly things, so this is right down her alley and her family gets a break,” said Hannah Bourgeois, Jaiden’s wish granter.
“Like Hannah said, this definitely was a humbling experience for both of us. It put a lot of thought into perspective into what people go [through] and struggles people go through on a daily basis,” said JD Martinez, Jaiden’s other wish granter.
Princess Jaiden not only gets to meet her favorite princesses Sophia, and Cinderella, she is also getting the royal treatment, something she’ll get to share with her best friend and little sister, Rilynn. They’ll be getting all dolled up by princesses while at Disney World.
“She is the perfect girl. I truly believe that if in God’s eyes for a perfect human being, Jaiden is exactly how he’d want someone to be.” said Daniel Hiebert.
Jaiden takes off for Disney world on Friday, November 25. If you’d like to get involved in the Make-A-Wish Foundation give them a call at 785-9474.
