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formal dresses that hang in Mandi Rolbiecki’s closet don’t hold any magical memories of her high school dances. Most of them have never even been worn, a sad reminder of her tormented life.
Her body has been ravaged by Crohn’s disease since she was 10 years old, and now at 17 notions like attending her junior prom sound like far away dreams to Rolbiecki.
She’s tried to go to dances before, only to fall so ill in the days before that it leaves yet another dress hanging with the tags on.
The disease has taken its toll so heavily that she hasn’t even been to school in two years, her school work managed through homework packets and her friendships managed through texts and e-mails.
So this spring, at a time when girls her age were sizing up potential dates and scouring the world for the perfect prom dress
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But with only 44 kids in the junior class at Cochrane-Fountain City High School, Mandi Rolbiecki was not forgotten.
Lorie Rolbiecki, Mandi’s mother, said she was paid a visit one day at her job at the Fountain City Kwik Trip. It was a teacher coming to say the junior class had nominated Mandi for the prom court.
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But a dress. She needed to find the perfect dress. Flipping through magazines at the Bridal Boutique she saw it: a melon-colored dream shimmering with silver sparkles and airy netting and a big pouffy skirt. Perfect. Fairy tale perfect, even.
But by the time she was being fitted for the dress in the days before prom, things were not going well for Mandi. Since the last surgery she had been improving, but now she had swelling in her neck and wasn’t feeling well.
At a doctor’s appointment Thursday before prom, her physician confirmed the worst: She had an infected blood clot that had moved into her neck, and she needed to be hospitalized. Again.
From Mandi’s hospital room, the world was looking very dark indeed.
Lorie received a call Friday from a teacher who said the students were busy preparing for prom and were very concerned about whether Mandi would be there, she said, choking up a little.
For the Rolbieckis and especially for Mandi, life has been hard, said Lorie. “That was really nice and sweet what they did for her,” she said of Mandi’s classmates. “It was a nice moment for her. She needed that. We needed that.”
Saturday came and Mandi, still hospitalized, was weighing her options.
Actually that’s not true. She was going to go to prom. There was no other option.
It was dangerous, and doctors cautioned the Rolbieckis that the blood clot could move and do untold damage to Mandi.
Such dire warnings and infections and complications had ruled most of Mandi’s teenage years, but this night would only come once for the rest of her life. “She said, ‘I’ve got to go, what’s going to happen is going to happen,’” Lorie said. “It was important to her that the kids had done this for her.”
So over the doctor’s strenuous objections, Lorie signed Mandi out of the hospital, though they promised to be back by 8 a.m. the next day.
Perfectly coifed and a vision in melon, Mandi Rolbiecki was crowned prom queen Saturday night by the C-FC junior class.
It was something that made principal Steve Stoppelmoor so proud
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Under strict doctor’s orders and with waning energy, Mandi could only have one dance that evening, a slow one with the prom king.
The rest of the night was spent sitting talking with friends just like old times, and it was absolutely perfect
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There will be weeks and weeks of antibiotics now, and more drugs and who knows how long in the hospital. But Mandi Rolbiecki has a prom dress hanging in her closet full of wonderful memories, and that’s what she really wanted the most. “I needed to break out of here, to get my mind off all this,” Mandi said. “Just for one night I wanted to be normal with my friends.”
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