Garrett Burnham

Check out Garrett's KidStrong website! garrettskidstrong.org Garrett's story is on there and donate page! Finally a working web site!

Journal

Monday, June 15, 2009 9:50 PM CDT

Hello All,

I guess it was God's will or whatever that you did not see what I wrote before. I was venting and was talking about my political views when it came to stem cell research, but I guess it was not to be sounded out by me, so I will talk about Garrett.

He would have been 14 years old tomorrow. With Kyle, his brother, being almost 5 foot tall, I can imagine Garrett being as tall as I am (5'7") because Garrett was always an over achiever. I can imagine all of his freckles and the dimple in his chin. His colic in his hair His long legs that would have hair on them now and making sure that he would put sunscreen on before he went out to play with his friends for the whole day long. His smile, being a little to the left because of his tumor, giving him an attitude that is a little sexy but yet something else that could not be understood unless you knew him and his history. Girls that look at him and see in his eyes a knowing of life and death, a depth that they would never know unless they really got to know him. He wanting to be a normal kid, trying as hard as he could to be "one of the club," but not always fitting in. He is not as fast, not as strong, not as normal as the other kids, but he has more understanding of life than all the others in his class. I wish Garrett could be here today to tell you exactly how he feels, what he wishes for and what he expects of us, but he is not here and I can only imagine what he would say or do, but I would hope that what we taught him while he was here would be taken into consideration. He thought when he was 8 1/2 years old that there needed to be more done for cancer kids....that is why he wanted to start a program for kids with cancer. Garrett died at the age of 9 years, 7 months. We started Garrett's KidStrong in September of 2005, 9 months after Garrett left us. We now have our non-profit number and are looking forward to starting programs that Garrett wanted for him and his friends. Some of which are still here, some that are not.

I am not asking you to cry for Garrett, I do enough of that for alot of people. What I am asking is that you offer your help for your local children's hospital that has program for children with cancer. If they don't have a program that provides a little fun for them outside the clinic, hospital arena, please let us know, if there is anyway that we can help getting the word out for these kids and their families we will do it. That is what Garrett would have wanted and we will continue to do so as long as we can.

God Bless and leave Garrett a Happy Birthday notice. We will be going to his gravesite tomorrow and leaving balloons and kisses.

Thank you for visiting. don't forget to visit www.garrettskidstong.org.

Love,
The Burnham Family

Hospital Information:

Patient Room: In your heart

Heaven
Second cloud from the right
First Rainbow
Just Pray and I will Answer

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