15 years ago today...

[AMVET91ALPHA]

On Christmas Day, 1989, I my first son and second child was born. When he was almost eight weeks old, he was diagnosed with a terminal genetic illness, a rare infantile form of muscular dystrophy called werdnig-hoffman syndrome. He died on June 11th, 1990.

So I have a daughter that will be seventeen in August, a son who was born after my firstborn son died who turned thirteen in May, and an angel in heaven..my dear sweet guardian angel of us all.

ANTHONY RICHARD SQUITTIERI

I don't want him to rest in peace. I pray every day that he isn't. I want him to be laughing and playing with all of God's children in heaven, and have the faith that he is.

[conlor]

It's sad to lose a child. But you will see him again someday. I have a baby in Heaven too, who didn't have the chance to be born. And now I have a grandbaby in Heaven too.

[JohnRN]

My brother was the second child. I'm actually the fifth.

My parents both loved and wanted daughters. All the daughters my beloved mother got were still born.

It must be a harsh and cruel thing to endure. I never knew this untill I turned 18 years old

*hugs*

[AMVET91ALPHA]

thank's ya'll..the pain doesn't go away..but there are other joys in life to get me through the pain, so I'll be okay. I used to try and stuff it down and mask the pain but today I choose to go through it, because it means I will remember all of his life, and the good times, even though he was here so briefly, and to me that makes all the difference in the world.