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My Thoughts
I would like to Thank You for coming by to meet my son, David and my family. Our son David has been gone from this earth a little over a year . I would like to tell you a little about our son , David passed away on April 21, 2001 ,he fought a good fight but in the end Leukemia took his life. H e was born a healthy baby boy 7 lbs. 10 oz. The joy of our life. When David turned 13 years old ,he became sick with Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer. He got this from mono. Some one whom he came in contact with had mono and he picked up the germ not from kissing but from a table or door handle then put his fingers in his mouth . We never knew he had mono so it stayed dormant in his system and turned into Hodgkin's disease , after two rounds of chemo and radiation he was in remission, he returned back to school that following year which was 1998. In Sept. 2000 David came down with a cold , he couldn't get over it, later the doctors found out he had AML and it came from one of the drugs they used to treat the Hodgkin's disease with and that drug was " VP-16 ". So they could not give him any more of that drug and 7 months later my son passed away . It was not all bad times in those months , we as a family had some Wonderful times in the 5 months while David was in remission . Times that we will Never Forget! David was a fighter when the AML came back on him he fought it with all he had . He loved The Lord and had given his life to Our Lord and Savior ,he was so kind , well mannered, handsome and sweet and loved by all that knew him . He and his brother Darius were the sunshine of our lives . As brothers they had their share of fighting , but they loved each other so much . The Lord Blessed us with two Beautiful son's, and they had a Wonderful grandmother to share their lives with . I have other family members too , sisters, brothers ,nephews and nieces, but there was never a bond between us and I was the baby, we never had fights or anything to cause us not to be close , I'm not sure why we weren't. When my son became ill in Sept. 2000, my mother was the only one that stood by us. David almost died 3 or 4 times in those months, but they never came , they only lived 38 miles from the hospital. I called my mom and told her they thought David was going to pass away , one of my sister's and a niece came then and one other sister came once before that in the beginning . Did it hurt me? No because when David became ill in 1998 they never showed any kind of emotion. But they were quick to ask, how was he doing , but did they really care , No they didn't ,it wasn't their child . You can treat me any way you want to , but when it comes to my children they are innocent and that is what hurts me the most . There were allot of people at David's funeral and they truly cared about David . Because when we didn't have immediate family with us through David's illness , Our Lord and Savior sent us strangers from all over that became our family they loved us and helped us through the most difficult time in our lives , and still to this day they are here for us and apart of our lives . We Thank God for them too . After David's funeral one of David's nurse's ask me ,who were all those people hollowing and crying at the funeral, she said , I never seen them at the hospital visiting David. I told her , I didn't know and I ask The Lord to forgive me for that lie. But I really don't know who they are and I don't think I have ever known them. We shared the same mother but they didn't seem to care about me or my family in our time of need . My mother knew the way they did was wrong too. When my father passed away in 1994, I had to bury him by myself of course my husband and son's were there for me but none of my sisters or brothers were . They didn't bring any food or flowers and to this day none of them have come up to me and said they were sorry my dad passed away .Do I love them ?God said, love one another . Yes I do and I can forgive them , but I can never forget the way they did my son , David . But I do believe it was their lost not ours. They miss not knowing one of the most sweetest person in the world . I don't really know them or understand why they are this way . If I ever see them in the store a stranger is treated better then they treat me . I know I have allot of hurt in my Heart and I know that God can help me heal . To anyone that is reading this , I know not all families are like this . Don't pity me when you read my story. Because Our Lord and Savior has been good to us .He gave us family when our family wasn't here for us , and David had two of the most caring grandparents in the world ,my mom and dad . Families are suppose to get along with each other , all I can do is Pray for them and ask God to help me to forgive them . Our lives changed in the blink of a eye ,our Precious son was gone . He had a good life and we had a good life by having him in our life too. God Truly did Bless us with him . And David had his dad and I and his brother and his grandma and all the Wonderful people that God brought into our lives by his side . I know David is with my dad in Heaven now and my dad is taking real good care of him , until we can all be together again . I know both of them are looking over us each and every day . We Love and Miss them both and will Always think of them each day of our life . Thank you for taking the time to read this , I had to get my feeling out for myself . I Pray God truly Blesses you and your family .
With All My Love ,
Lee Ann
