John in AR
03-03-2006, 02:58 PM
A good friend of my son, whose dad is a good friend of mine, lost the battle yesterday after more than three years of fighting. He was a great kid. He was diagnosed with leukemia the day after Christmas, 2002, when he was 11. He died yesterday at 15.
The picture in the news story shows his smile. It never appeared on him as a “smile thru the pain”, he just always smiled like that. Literally never saw him “look” in pain, even when you knew he was. He looks like an starved 8-year-old in that picture; you’d never know he was actually fifteen and one of the most athletic kids you’d ever meet when he was younger. It just dissolved him away from the inside for three years.
The American doctors gave up on him a year or so ago, and his parents (Henry and Sharon) then took him to Israel for some experimental treatments. They got rid of the cancer, but never got him healthy again. His lungs never got healthy and just couldn’t keep him going.
He was in the same classes and Sunday school class as my son, his dad is in the Sunday school class I’m teaching, we’ve been on campouts together; they’re just really good people.
http://www.kthv.com/news/search/results.aspx?storyid=24432
http://www2.caringbridge.org/ar/keepthefaith/
This is the third dead kid in my circle of friends since December. Another 15-year-old classmate got hit by a car on a dirt road in December and a 20-something kid committed suicide just two weeks ago. And they were all ‘good’ kids, whatever that means anymore.
What a crappy winter.
The picture in the news story shows his smile. It never appeared on him as a “smile thru the pain”, he just always smiled like that. Literally never saw him “look” in pain, even when you knew he was. He looks like an starved 8-year-old in that picture; you’d never know he was actually fifteen and one of the most athletic kids you’d ever meet when he was younger. It just dissolved him away from the inside for three years.
The American doctors gave up on him a year or so ago, and his parents (Henry and Sharon) then took him to Israel for some experimental treatments. They got rid of the cancer, but never got him healthy again. His lungs never got healthy and just couldn’t keep him going.
He was in the same classes and Sunday school class as my son, his dad is in the Sunday school class I’m teaching, we’ve been on campouts together; they’re just really good people.
http://www.kthv.com/news/search/results.aspx?storyid=24432
http://www2.caringbridge.org/ar/keepthefaith/
This is the third dead kid in my circle of friends since December. Another 15-year-old classmate got hit by a car on a dirt road in December and a 20-something kid committed suicide just two weeks ago. And they were all ‘good’ kids, whatever that means anymore.
What a crappy winter.