Reply #21: I just saw this demwing and am so sorry.

[polly7]

What a sweet boy, my heart goes out to you for all you've had to face. I lost our Karley at the age of 7, he looks so much like your Ian in one of his pictures it's uncanny. He died suddenly at school, he'd had chicken-pox, been cleared by the doctor to go back to school and collapsed playing hide and seek at recess. The other kids thought he was playing, then they were afraid and covered him with coats in case he was just sick and cold. He was probably gone by that time, the virus had gone to his brain. I think of him at least 10 times a day, sometimes for hours at a time, not able to move, or sleep, or eat. I too had to quit work for a while, other things were going on at the time he died, we had a bad call with the ambulance, I'd just left an abusive marriage and was being stalked night and day. Through all this, the only thing that kept me sane was thinking of the hilarious things he would say and do, how wise he was at such a young age, a protector of all and friend to anyone and everyone. I know myself, and the rest of us will never get over losing him. Burying a child is the worst possible thing on earth. My heart really does go out to you, if you ever need another ear, I'm always willing. Take care of yourself.