It sometimes comes right before the holidays, sometimes on a holiday and is particularly unfair when it involves a child. I have experienced it during the holidays, and yet when it happens it sucks, the death of a child.
A friend of mine from my high school days many years ago, adopted a child because she and her husband couldn't have children. This child grew and prospered from her adoptive parents love. She was given everything she needed, simply put love.
Then about 14-years ago, she became ill. She suffered complications from high quadriplegia. No one seems to know why or how this happens, but it does. For over 13 years her husband was her primary caretaker, devoted as he was, he did all he could, yet in the end, it wasn't meant to be. Her parents, putting their lives on hold, traveling great distances and at great expense to visit their constantly hospitalized daughter as she courageously faced the inevitable.
It breaks my heart that not even an adopted child who gave them such joy and love, cannot bring this love evermore. Life can suck, but it did give my friend at least an outlet for their own love now and forever.
A friend of mine from my high school days many years ago, adopted a child because she and her husband couldn't have children. This child grew and prospered from her adoptive parents love. She was given everything she needed, simply put love.
Then about 14-years ago, she became ill. She suffered complications from high quadriplegia. No one seems to know why or how this happens, but it does. For over 13 years her husband was her primary caretaker, devoted as he was, he did all he could, yet in the end, it wasn't meant to be. Her parents, putting their lives on hold, traveling great distances and at great expense to visit their constantly hospitalized daughter as she courageously faced the inevitable.
It breaks my heart that not even an adopted child who gave them such joy and love, cannot bring this love evermore. Life can suck, but it did give my friend at least an outlet for their own love now and forever.
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