Barbara Bush opened up about her daughter Robin who died at just 3-years-old of leukemia on the Nov. 20 episode of 'TODAY.' See what Barbara has to say about how she could tell her daughter was getting sick, why she donated the infant's body to science and how often she thinks of her!
On the Nov. 20 episode of
TODAY,
Jenna Bush interviewed her grandmother
Barbara Bush about Barbara's daughter
Robin Bush, who was diagnosed with leukemia at age 3 in 1953.
Jenna asked her grandmother how she could tell that Robin was getting sick. Barbara recalled, "She was lifeless. She had a few blood tests, and the doctor called and said she had leukemia. The doctor said she is going to die. Take her home, love her, and she will die in 2 weeks." Barbara said that they took her all over the country for chemo, but seven months later, when she was almost four, she died. "I was holding her hair, her little head, and I saw her spirit go," Barbara says. Barbara and her husband
George Bush decided to donate Robin's body for research. She recalls it being an easy decision and said that she felt good "knowing something good was
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