- Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg was diagnosed with cancer in 2020
- He tragically passed away the same year after battling rare liver cancer.
A girl who succumbed to cancer at just nine years old left a message for her unborn siblings, reminding them to “always be happy and kind,” on her cell phone two years before she was diagnosed with a fatal illness.
Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and died in September, but she filmed this video in 2018, before her mother became pregnant with a brother.
Her mother, Lacretia Riekeberg, did not find the video until 2022, when she decided to go through her daughter’s phone for old memories.
The 45-year-old from Chelsea, Alabama, USA, lost Destiny when she was just nine years old and is now mother to one-year-old Deuce, who will, of course, be shown the video when she is old enough to understand it.
Lacretia said: ‘She was an only child all her life and we never talked about having more children.
Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and died in September, but she filmed this video in 2018, before her mother became pregnant with a brother.
Lacretia Riekeberg appears with her son, Deuce, who was born in 2022, four years after the heartbreaking Destiny video
Destiny Riekeberg died in September 2020 after a battle with rare liver cancer.
‘The video was found on the angel’s second anniversary, I was lying in bed very sad with her little brother who was newborn.
‘He had almost 3000 videos on his phone from 2018 alone, the fact that I was looking at his phone that year and didn’t see it makes no sense.
“What makes it so special is that before he got sick, he didn’t know what was going to happen, but now it makes sense.”
‘She was talking to me from heaven and took me to this video on her phone.
“It was incredible to have found this video knowing that she never knew she was going to die or that she was going to have a brother.”
Lacretia explained in a May 2020 interview with WBRC in Alabama that Destiny was diagnosed, around Christmas, with a rare form of liver cancer.
Before that, she had been a typical 8-year-old girl who especially loved being a cheerleader.
“As soon as the Christmas holidays came, boom, she was out cold…I looked at her and thought, oh my gosh, my daughter looks like a cancer patient,” Lacretia said.
After being admitted to a local hospital, Destiny underwent emergency surgery and spent the next four months battling the disease.