We would like to thank those that have continued to show their support to us during these past weeks and months. Many of you have done so via e-mails, texts, postings and visits. We truly appreciate it because it is harder beyond comprehension to deal with his passing to Heaven. We also appreciate the people that still reach out to us to tell us that AA has touched their lives in many relevant ways. We have been told by family of instances that they have seen strangers with AA's bracelets on. Truly moving to know that people still remember his fight. Thank you and God Bless you all.
Michelle & Roi
Friday, July 13, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Four Month Anniversary
Another month of AA's passing today... It's now four months and it feels like the week before the anniversary is horrible and the week after is horribly draining as well. How do we feel as time takes as further away from the memories of our beloved boy? Or as the waters of sadness try to wash away the amazing love that we had for him and he had for us? Well imagine your self as a painter, someone on the level of a Picasso or Van Gogh.. Imagine you just finished your "Guernica" or your "Stary Night", and you had that gut feeling that this was a good piece, if not a great piece. Now what do you do when that piece is stolen or burnt to the ground? Most great artists are so arrogant and talented that they would probably shrug it off and start working on their next masterpiece immediately. If only we could somehow add our next masterpiece to the equation immediately, not to replace AA because we never want a replacement, but to fuel our artistic need as parents. Parents are artists in creating lives, memories, futures and more. Our lives are a living canvas that we cultivate and once children come into the picture our artistic style and outlook changes. What was once grey is now yellow and so on. The greatest art we can create as humans is not as easy as it seems. Many of you know that from your own personal experiences or from people close to you that have tried. We all live in the same art gallery. We all strive to create that "masterpiece". Some of us do and some of us are not as lucky. Some of us are lucky enough to create those works of art and have it last a life time and some of us lose them in fires. Although it burns the soul of our existence on a daily basis not to have the "masterpiece" of our boy with us physically, we know that God inspired us to create a masterpiece and hopefully one day, we get another chance. God bless all the wonderful artists and masterpieces of the world. We love you AA!
Mama and Papa ( Beemer says hi "Gordo")
Here's to four month of no more pain, tubies, or all the crazy things our children go through when dealing with such diseases.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Land of The Free, Home of The Sick
Hello All,
Hope all is well. In the upcoming days our country, will be celebrating it's 236th birthday. A wonderful occasion in world history. The great declaration made by the founders of this country in that long gone era inspired many through out the globe to fight social injustice and inequality. It has also inspired me to write something along those lines A thought came to mind recently regarding the state of our health care system and the lack of priority that is given to the well being of our union's citizen's.
For quite a long time, this country's status as the world's iconic democratic model went unquestioned. The status of such an iconic status has come into question by many in recent time, both near and afar. Concerning to me is the fact that I have within the last year lost 5 people that were near and dear to my family and I to Cancer, including our precious Andrew Aidan. Not to mention an other person which is at Heaven's Gate as we speak also fighting the dreaded war against against Cancer. Never in my life have I or my friends or loved ones suffered such large amounts of loss due to Cancer.
How does this tie into the decline of our established country's social and political prominence? In my view when our government decides to give to the country of Afghanistan 146 war planes as a GIFT to maintain their country's fight for democracy it becomes concerning. A fight that has cost the American people close to $543 billion dollars and counting. Imagine if the US Govt gave to Afghanistan a plane like the F-22 as an example. The F-22 is a fighter that is made by Locheed Martin. It initially cost $150 million to produce and the government has ordered 195 of them to date. You do the math...150 million x 195 units is around= $28 billion dollars. This does not include the changes in price that have resulted due to faulty design. Imagine giving $28billion +dollars to a country that probably hates our guts. Mean while, the National Cancer Institute last year had a budget of roughly $146 million to combat ALL types of pediatric cancers. The cost of ONE F-22 was allocated to the fight of a disease that is decimating our children. The cost of research for adult cancers is utterly higher but it still doesn't come close to the amount of investment our government has made in Afghanistan as opposed to all of us here. Imagine if we focused our resources on our own country. I pray for the day when this country can rise to social, intellectual, scientific and moral prominence once again and not settle for mediocrity. The day that those virtues are made our priorities once again, our children, well those that aren't stuck with Cancer or other diseases will hopefully have a chance to live in a better place. If we get close to that, this country will be the Land of The Free and Home of The Brave, not Land of The Free & Home of The Sick.
God Bless us all.
Hope all is well. In the upcoming days our country, will be celebrating it's 236th birthday. A wonderful occasion in world history. The great declaration made by the founders of this country in that long gone era inspired many through out the globe to fight social injustice and inequality. It has also inspired me to write something along those lines A thought came to mind recently regarding the state of our health care system and the lack of priority that is given to the well being of our union's citizen's.
For quite a long time, this country's status as the world's iconic democratic model went unquestioned. The status of such an iconic status has come into question by many in recent time, both near and afar. Concerning to me is the fact that I have within the last year lost 5 people that were near and dear to my family and I to Cancer, including our precious Andrew Aidan. Not to mention an other person which is at Heaven's Gate as we speak also fighting the dreaded war against against Cancer. Never in my life have I or my friends or loved ones suffered such large amounts of loss due to Cancer.
How does this tie into the decline of our established country's social and political prominence? In my view when our government decides to give to the country of Afghanistan 146 war planes as a GIFT to maintain their country's fight for democracy it becomes concerning. A fight that has cost the American people close to $543 billion dollars and counting. Imagine if the US Govt gave to Afghanistan a plane like the F-22 as an example. The F-22 is a fighter that is made by Locheed Martin. It initially cost $150 million to produce and the government has ordered 195 of them to date. You do the math...150 million x 195 units is around= $28 billion dollars. This does not include the changes in price that have resulted due to faulty design. Imagine giving $28billion +dollars to a country that probably hates our guts. Mean while, the National Cancer Institute last year had a budget of roughly $146 million to combat ALL types of pediatric cancers. The cost of ONE F-22 was allocated to the fight of a disease that is decimating our children. The cost of research for adult cancers is utterly higher but it still doesn't come close to the amount of investment our government has made in Afghanistan as opposed to all of us here. Imagine if we focused our resources on our own country. I pray for the day when this country can rise to social, intellectual, scientific and moral prominence once again and not settle for mediocrity. The day that those virtues are made our priorities once again, our children, well those that aren't stuck with Cancer or other diseases will hopefully have a chance to live in a better place. If we get close to that, this country will be the Land of The Free and Home of The Brave, not Land of The Free & Home of The Sick.
God Bless us all.
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