[Xero]

I agree bssage... I've got tears in my eyes now. There is a local boy who has had his picture up at the bank with a thing for donations because he has had to get a heart transplant I think twice, and they needed to raise money for the second time. It was my bank, and I always tried to put something in the cup whenever I was there. It just broke my heart to look at his picture. He was only a baby, not even a year old. About 11 months. And he was smiling, and he looked so sweet. A baby that doesn't have a working heart... And he's still smiling. Its not fair that something so innocent should be in any pain.

Anyway... His parents brought him into my place of work a couple of months ago. I was blown away to see him in real life. They had him in a stroller. He was almost a year old, and he looked about 3 months old. He had tubes and wires hooked up to him and he looked all bent out of shape, and he had to have his shirt left open cause of the tubes in his chest and he had a huge nasty scar on his soft little baby chest. It was horrible. I visited with them for a moment, telling them that I had seen his picture and whatnot and asking them how he was doing, and he just gave me this perfect smile. And he looked so so terrible, but still smiled. I was so choked up. I told them goodbye and I struggled to stop crying for a couple of minutes. I had to go to the bathroom!! I guess its because I have a perfectly healthy beautiful child of my own and life just doesn't seem fair sometimes.

I really appreciate the things I have. And I agree that we have to stop and remember this as often as possible.