| The 15th of March, 1970, was a very happy day for our family, I gave birth to the most beautiful little boy I named David. He was my 4th child and the 1st son after 3 beautiful daughters. My happiness was short-lived as he was taking cyanotic turns and turning blue, he went to a big hospital in Sydney until he was 1 month old. I don't know whether delivering him all by myself had anything to do with these turns or not. Anyway he stopped having them, and was a very happy little baby boy; I took him back to the specialist a couple of times. Life went on very happy. On the 1.12.1971 I gave birth to Rodney, on the 11th I had an operation, and after being home about 1 week, I noticed a very small lump just near David's eyebrow between his eyes. No doctor would do anything about it, just kept saying he had bumped his head, we took him to 3 places before anyone would do anything for us. Finally my Doctor said he looked a little lethargic and I was so worried about it, he sent me for X-rays. Well the news wasn't good at all. Straight to a specialist, on 24.12.71, we were told David had a malignant tumor above his kidney and it had already metastasized to his bones in his head. In those days we weren't given any stage Neuroblastoma as this happened so long ago, sometimes it is so clear it is just like yesterday. I was very naive in those days and the only cancer I had heard of in children was Leukemia. I asked the specialist what was going to happen, and he said he would just waste away and die. I just went to pieces, as you can imagine, getting news like that when your baby is only 21 months old. We then took him straight to the Children�s hospital at Camperdown, which is in Sydney. The specialists there said they would operate, but not yet, that we could take him home to have Christmas with him, as we probably wouldn't have him next Christmas, which turned out to be true. On 31.12.71 David had a very big operation, his kidney was removed and it was terrible going in and seeing him with all the tubes and drips. I cried so much. David recovered very quickly from this operation, and started chemotherapy, which made him lose all his hair. And by gee can't some people be cruel about that. The number of people, who just stared at my darling son, made me so upset. By beginning of July 1972, the doctors were very hopeful of David getting better, as he was free of cancer. Towards the end of July, I noticed David started getting fevers and looking unwell. Back to the doctors at Camperdown. Bad news again, David has cancer cells back in his bone marrow. He was isolated, which was terrible for us all, and other treatments tried. I think it was about September 1972 that the doctors called me in, to discuss David's future and treatments. They told me the news that I knew was coming that they really couldn't do anymore for David. If I wanted to keep on trying they would do it, but in their opinion it would be of no use. I sat there, and said straight out to them, no more treatments, David and I had been through enough and that I would let him go to heaven. He had been through hell with all the treatments and blood tests, etc., On the 2nd November 1972, David went to Heaven to be an Angel. It was 3.00pm on a Thursday, and he was laid to rest on 6.11.72. David was born at 3.00pm on a Sunday afternoon, so you can see he came into the world at exactly the same time he departed. My life has been so full of sadness at my loss, and I never will heal properly at the loss of my beautiful son. A VERY HAPPY FOOTNOTE. On the 2nd November, 2001, on David's 29th Anniversary, a new little member of our family was born at the same time as David was born and became an angel. 3.00PM in the afternoon. Nathan David was born to my son Rodney, who was only 11 months old when David died, and doesn't remember his big brother at all, and Lisa his wife, Nathan in their 2nd little boy. They have also Ryan James, who is one year older. Nathan was born with the cord around his neck and it was very touch and go for a while, but our angel David saved his life, and we have just celebrated his 1st birthday which was also 30 years since our family had to say goodbye to the most beautiful little boy. David would have now 3 little nieces and 3 little nephews, and I guess he would be now married and have his own children if he hadn't been chosen to be an angel. That is the sadness all families who have suffered the same loss, has to live with, always wondering where their child would be now. I know my thoughts are always of David, and always will be until the day I join him. |
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| Me with David when he was very sick.. |
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| David in his little blue car. We had this little car for David for Xmas 1971, and then on the 24th December (Xmas Eve) we found out David had Neuroblastoma and we were told to take him home for Xmas, as we probably wouldn't have him for the next one. It turned out to be true. |