Stories of Lost Children
Ryan Angel
by Tami Kluck, Hemet, CA, U.S.A.
My husband and I have a little girl, when we found out in October of 1999 that we were pregnant we so excited, we just knew we would have another little girl. But in March 2000 my husband's dream came true. To make our family complete and perfect we were going to have a boy!!! Ryan was born on July 13, 2000. His sister just turned five on July 8. Ryan was completely different than his sister, so happy, no matter what part of the day. You could wake him up in the middle of a nap or in the middle of the night and he would just look up at you smile. His laugh was big enough to where you would start laughing. He would be so excited when I walked in the door from work he would start laughing and fall to the floor. We celebrated his first birthday and his sister's sixth birthday at a birthday party on July 14, 2001. It was so beautiful. On Monday July 23, 2001 I was standing at the kitchen sink washing his bottles so I could get him ready for bed. His sister walked outside to find daddy, Ryan was sitting right at my feet, his sister came in looking for Ryan and I thought she was joking with me when she said she couldn't find him. I frantically raced from room to room until I found him floating in the pool. I grabbed him, holding him and calling 911 and screaming for my 6 year old to get her dad from down the street. My husband performed CPR as the fire department drove up. We went to our local hospital and then transferred to a children's hospital a couple of hours later. By this time it was after midnight. By the time we saw him again it was 7 a.m. He had had a seizure and they told us he was not going to make it. He died on July 24, 2001 and so did a part of us. We are still struggling day and day and do not know how to move on. He was the sunshine of our life, but we know that our little girl needs us more than ever right now. If we look to the future it seems so empty. Day to day that is all we can handle, if that.
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