Niece made a huge sacrifice

Here is a copy of Rob Bucktooth's letter, which won the Preventive Medicine Associates "good deed" contest.
I am writing about the "Good Deed" by my niece, Ally Wanatee. Ally is 14 years old now but has been caring for her grandmother (Donna Bucktooth) for the last two years.
Ally watched the visiting nurses that came to the house to care for my mother, and she was very interested in what they did and she asked many questions.
Ally would write down information into a log that we kept for my mother's vital signs, which included temperatures, sugar level, blood pressure and information for insulin shots that she needed on a daily basis.
With shortages in nurses, the visits were cut back to every other day and then once a week. Our family took over the place of the nurses, and Ally stepped in and asked if she could help.
The nurses stopped completely and just stopped once a week to drop off supplies.
Ally would miss a lot of school once my mother got really sick, and Ally would not leave her side until my mother was out of the woods and feeling better.
I know Ally would not give one minute back of the time she stayed with her grandmother.
I know she made a huge sacrifice in her school work, and it was hard for her to see her friends pass into the next grade. I knew she wouldn't be able to catch up with her homework.
Ally ended up failing that school year.
I told Ally that if she worked hard in high school, she could double up in her junior-senior year and graduate with her regular class.
So I would like to have Ally win this contest and use that computer to help her with her homework and projects that she would need in high school to pass each class and get good grades.
I know that her grandmother was proud of her for all the help she gave her, and my mother always took Ally with her wherever she went.
Ally and my mother were best friends. They would ride around on a golf cart in the neighborhood and go to softball games or just go for ice cream on a nice day.
My mother taught Ally how to cook, drive a car, and on her good days, she would help Ally try to catch up on school work or projects when she could.
My mother passed away on Dec.  26, 2005, a day after Christmas and 16 days after her 50th wedding anniversary.
We are living, but it's nowhere near the same as it was and never will be again.
They say if you do good deeds, they will come back to you in the future, and I believe Ally will be a good candidate.
... This is the first year with­out my mother, and I can't say much more on how Ally made my mother's last year on Earth the best she could.