Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Over the past few months we have ordered some books about grieving and other topics that feel relevant. One of them is called "Comfort" by Ann Hood (Amazon). It's a short book, just a few hours to read from beginning to end. She lost her 5-yr-old daughter Grace after an ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
(Matt) In the time since I wrote my eulogy for Kevin's funeral, I've had many thoughts of things I should have said and stories I could have told. Although many people knew him well and no amount of words could really capture who he was, I still have this desire ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
It's been a little over two weeks since we lost Kevin, and we are still trying to adjust to our changed life. We miss him terribly every day. Our house is too quiet and our life is too calm without his voice, his laugh, his cries for "cup!", diaper changes, ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
As most of you have heard, we lost our sweet boy yesterday morning. He had been in the hospital with a respiratory virus. Friday morning about 2:00 a.m. he got very sick and his heart stopped. The doctors worked on him for well over three hours and air ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Kevin is in the hospital again, and he's pretty sick. He came down with cold-like symptoms last week and was kind of tired and not himself, then a few days ago his asthma seemed to start acting up and a kroup cough hit him while he was down. So ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Kevin has always had his little quirks and "obsessions", but lately it's his coffee. Just like his mom, Kevin loves his coffee. No, of course not real coffee - just an empty coffee cup from the Porter's gas station. Whenever Dawn gets coffee from there or McDonalds or Starbucks or ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Last Weekend we took part in a telethon for the Children's Therapy Center of the Quad Cities. It was on the local NBC station, and we were asked to be interviewed to give a little information about Kevin, his history, and how the CTC is helping us. Sara has come ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
We just got back from Iowa City, where Kevin had his semi-annual "big" checkup for his pacemaker and sedated echo. Everything went well and there were no surprises.
Kevin was a wreck this morning, having to get up and out the door around 6:30am. He always has a cup of milk ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
We always thought Kevin was a smart little guy, but the other day after breakfast he made it clear that he craves a little more information about current events than we are teaching him. I guess he's an Obama supporter too - that's our boy!
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Kevin had a fun time with Easter this year, even though he didn't quite understand why he should find eggs and he isn't that big of a fan of candy. Nevertheless he did manage to find some eggs and have a good time.
We tried not to mention the Easter Bunny ...
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