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My Sweet Little Angel



Well, Dustin is going to be a big angel brother. We are expecting another baby. This one was planned for some time and it took a lot of Dr visits and consultations to get where we are today.

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Dustin fought his battle of Leukemia for 10 months
and 2 days. On Wednesday December 17, 2003 Dustin
went into the arms of God. This is not a Goodbye
but, just a Goodnight. With all our love we will miss you dearly.
Love, daddy, mommy and sissy and your new baby bother Ty.

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Over 3000 children are diagnosed each year with cancer and at least 11 children a day will die from it. Just to know that each day when you wake up to go to work or whatever you are doing that day, 11 children will be gone, to join God’s glorious World.
Lets help in finding a cure.







Cord Blood Donor Information

How To Donate Your Baby's Umbilical Cord Blood

Umbilical Cord Blood Saves Lives


National Children's Cancer Society (Visit the boards to ask questions and share answers)

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (A great place to get good information)

National Marrow Donor Registry (Find out how you can save someone's life)

Make A Child Smile Organization (Send a child a card listed here)

Hugs and Hope (Another card program.)

Kids Need Prayer Organization (An awesome listing of kids in need of prayer)

"Fight For a Cure"

"Lighting Children's Lives"

CancerKids (A listing of many kids fighting cancer)

Make A Wish

Songs of Love (Free songs for terminally ill children)

Never Ending Squirrel Tale (Cancer Resources)













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MOMMY, Please Don’t Cry….
THERE ARE NO TEARS IN HEAVEN


MOMMY, PLEASE
DON’T CRY…
A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL
CARRIED ME HERE!

I MET JESUS
TODAY, MOMMY!
HE CRADLED ME IN HIS
BIG, STRONG ARMS.
HE MADE ME FEEL SO
HAPPY INSIDE.

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder
them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

MOMMY, PLEASE DON’T CRY…
HEAVEN IS WONDERFUL!
DID YOU KNOW THE STREETS
ARE MADE OF GOLD?
REAL GOLD!

I HAVE LOTS
OF FRIENDS, MOMMY.
WE RUN AND PLAY.
WE GIGGLE AND LAUGH.
I CAN’T WAIT
TO SHOW YOU
MY SECRET HIDEOUTS!

MOMMY, PLEASE
DON’T CRY…
WHEN I FALL IT
DOESN’T HURT!
THERE ARE NO TEARS
IN HEAVEN.

“He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has passed away.”

I’VE MET A MAN NAMED NOAH.
HE TOLD ME ABOUT HIS BIG BOAT,
ALL THE ANIMALS, AND THE VERY FIRST
RAINBOW. HAVE YOU HEARD
OF NOAH, MOMMY?

MOMMY, PLEASE
DON’T CRY…
WE HAVE LOTS OF
PARTIES HERE;
WITH STREAMERS AND HATS,
AND THE BEST CHOCOLATE
CAKE EVER!

“Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that
in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.”

WHEN IT’S TIME TO REST
ANGELS TUCK US IN,
I NEVER GET
SCARED MOMMY.
THERE IS NO
DARKNESS HERE!
JESUS IS
THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN.

MOMMY,
PLEASE DON’T CRY…
THE ANGELS ARE ALWAYS SINGING.
I LOVE TO SING WITH THE ANGELS!
YOU’D BE PROUD OF ME,
I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD VOICE.
I MUST HAVE GOTTEN IT
FROM YOU.

THERE IS A RIVER, MOMMY,
IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDEN
YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE…
AND A HUGE TREE WITH YUMMY FRUIT.
THE ANGELS CALL IT THE TREE OF LIFE.
MOMMY, IT’S SO WONDERFUL
TO BE ALIVE IN HEAVEN!

MOMMY, PLEASE
DON’T CRY…
SOMETIME I JUST LIKE
TO BE BY MYSELF.
THAT’S WHEN I THINK OF YOU.

SOMEDAY, MOMMY, WE WILL
HOLD EACH OTHER TIGHT!
THEN YOU WILL CRADLE ME
IN YOUR ARMS,
AND STROKE MY HAIR
AND ONCE AGAIN, OUR
HEARTS WILL
BEAT TOGETHER.

MOMMY, PLEASE
DON’T CRY…
I’LL WAIT RIGHT
HERE FOR YOU.

WRITTEN BY LINDA DEYMAZ
In memory of Alexandra Grace Deymaz





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Around the middle of January when it was my neice's birthday I had a few people and Dustin's teacher told me that he looked pale. I did not think anything of it at the time. Dustin did have a little reddness under the eyes and he had an ear infection in his left ear at the time. There would be days that he looked paler than he normally was. He was a very white little boy to begin with. Also there would be days that his eyes were not as red, but days that he looked deathly ill. After dealing with his ears for sometime I got tired of it and figured that it was not going to heal on its own like they used to. I had taken him to see a doctor and get some antobiotics and mentioned about him maybe being jaundice. After talking to the doctor about his ears and people telling me that Dustin looks pale or jaundice and the reddness under his eye;she gave me a prescription for his medicine. Asked me about his urine and decided, because the white of his eye where ok and the color of his urine was ok that she thought it could not be jaundice. She told me that we could do a blood test to check for sure and I did not thank that was necessary. She explain that the reddness under his eyes could be from allergies since he did have and ear infection and was coughing a little bit. For the next ten days or so I gave Dustin his antibiotics and noticed that he was not really doing anything for his ears.
After a fews days had gone by since he had finished his medicine, his right ear started draining. Mind you, this was an ear that rarely had ear infections. That was when I decide to take Dustin to an ENT doctor to find out what the heck was going on. So on February 12,2003,Dustin had his appointment with Dr. Rance Raney. Before Dr. Raney looked in his ears he noticed that he was very pale and that he was to pale for his age. He order a CBC(complete blood count)test.
Two day later on February 14th,yes Valentine's Day I recieved a call from my sister stating that one of Dr. Raney's nurses was trying to get a hold of me at home and that they had been calling every 15 minutes. I was at work and my boss had said that someone had called a couple of time looking for someone by the name of Dan. Course my boss had told them that there was no one by that name here. Finally they had called back at work after my sister had told the nurse that the number she was calling to talk to Dan was my work number. I had talked with the nurse and she transferred me to Dr. Raney. At that time he explain to me that he got the results back from the lab. He told me what his white blood counts where at(over 40,000-norm is betwee 5,000-19,000),his red blood cells where somewhere around 1.2(norm is between 3.9-5.3),his hemaglobin was 5.6(norm was between11.5-13.5)which explains why is so pale. Dr. Raney explain some of the thing that it could be that would make his white blood cells so high and that he might be anemic. He wanted me to have Dustin see his regular doctor first thing Saturday morning and he would fax over his labs to the doctor so that he would have them.
For the rest of the day I was in shambles, not knowing what was going on with Dustin and to know that I had to wait until the next day for me to even find out. My valentine's was not good the rest of the day.The next day me and Dan were at the doctors office about 7:30 am. Remind you,Dustin did not have an appointment and they were going to have us see a nurse pactioner.I refused and ended up getting a little nasty with the lady at the front desk stating that I wanted to see Dr.Feray and I wanted him to explain his counts to us not a nurse. I had told them that the labs where faxed over to him the day before. By that time I was upset and that was when they went and asked the doctor to see if he would see us.It was not even a minute later, we were in the back in a room.Dr. Feray looked at his labs and gave us his opion and what he thought it was.He thought since he had a cough and sound a little congested that he might a few spot of pneumonia.He also decided that we should go to Texas Children's Hospital to have further test done since he did not have that kind of equipment there in the office.
So I took Dan home grabbed some things for Dustin,had my mom come with me.We were there at the ER by 11:00 am and explained to the nurses there that his dr. had called to let them know that we were on our way and faxed them his lab work. We ended up waiting only about 5 minutes when they called us to go back to a room.That was when all hell broke loose and my world had turned upside down. We had so many doctors come in and explaing to us what Leukemia was and the different types.Which one was the good one and which one was bad,which one was easy to treat and which one was hard to treat. I could not comprehend anything that was being told to me. All I could remembe was them tell me that he Leukemia and I just held him tight thinking that I was going to loose my son.He was only three years old. This can not be happening. He has not lived his life yet. You can not take him from me, not know. From that moment on we lived in a world of hell and that I must have done something so terrible that God was punishing me for it.For the next month or so I was told so much info and to have to watch Dustin go through so much pain, not know what the doctors where talking about and having to basicly learn a whole new language. Doctor language that is.






Diagnosed with AML M1February 15,2003
Remission-March 2003
1st relapse-May 22,2003
2nd relapse-July 16,2003
Bone Marrow Transplant-September 12,2003




I had received an email from a friend of mine, that her son also had AML, but unfortunately his life was taken by this awful disease. This site is a video if the Lords Prayer and is very beautiful. Please view this site. LordsPrayer













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Heaven. Is there any place so inviting and at the same time so incomprehensible? What do you imagine when you think of heaven? The Bible tells us, “No mere man has ever seen, heard, or even imagined what wonderful things God has ready for those who love the Lord” ( I Corinthians 2:9, TLB ). Yet, it also tells us that heaven is a place of light, hope, and rewards. Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” How marvelous to know a heavenly home awaits those who trust in him.

My deep sorrow has given me a better understanding of the Bible and God’s promises concerning heaven. Through the experience of losing my son, I have become more intensely aware of my heavenly home, and I live now in joyful expectation of going there someday.

I have often sat on my front porch and watched the beautiful somewhat of a sunset over the trees, trying to envision what Dustin might be doing in heaven at that very moment: running and laughing, playing with other children, driving his monster trucks, even maybe walking with his great-grandparents. I know that Dustin is loved and cared for in that wonderful place called heaven. He is safe and secure in the arms of Jesus.

Know that Dustin is in heaven is one of my heart’s greatest treasures. When I think about being with him again, my eyes often fill with tears of joy. I live with an over whelming sense of hope and comfort as I anticipate that day.

“ For God so loved the word that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life” (John 5:24).

Here is a prayer that you can say to invite Jesus into your life.

Dear Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God, and that You gave Your life for me on the cross as payment for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead and that You are alive today in heaven. Please forgive my sins and come into my life s Savior and Lord.
Thank You for the gift of eternal life. Help me to trust You and walk with You here on earth until the day when I walk with You in heaven. Amen.











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The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters,
He restores my soul.
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me:
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalm 23

Luke 18:16-17

Suffer little childrento come unto me, and forbid them not:for of such is the kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

This verse was chosen not only by Dustin's cousin Brittany, but also by the pastor. It was said at the serves.
Thank you both.




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Journal

Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:51 PM CDT

My bad!

Just had to put that in. I hear it all the time from Danielle. Boy, am I way over due for an update. Somebody needs to email me and remind me. Like I really have the time between a full time job and partial full time college student. Yes, you read it correctly, COLLEGE STUDENT. Have I fallen off my rocker? Sometimes I think so. So don't think there is something wrong with your eye sight. Actually, it has been eight months now since I started. I am almost halfway through my degree plan. I decided to try once more to enter the world of college. I am working on getting my AAS in Business Administration/Accounting. I know, I know, accountants can be a bore. But, those boring accountants make a pretty good living.

I know I told you in the last update that my doctor had decide to let me try to get pregnant again, but had to be in remission. Bad news, no remission. Oh, well. I am doing just fine. The same old stuff. Same old medication. Gain weight, then loose it. Up and down, up and down. I did have a semi-normal winter though, only got pnuemonia, no kidney stones at least. That's a positive.

Dan is doing great. Working alot on the weekends. Hey OT is always good. Danielle got a puppy for x-mas this year. Really nothing new has happened. That good I guess.

Thank for stopping bye, I love each and everyone of you that visits. You are what keeps me going sometimes on my bad days.

Thanks,
Stacie



To my little man way up in the sky, I bet your were just rolling on that cloud laughing at you Aunt Charlotte throwing that piece of wood at your wind chime to try and fix it. I know I would have. That would have been funny. I really miss you so much. Sissy got a puppy for x-mas from your Aunt Sandy. She is so cute. Her name is Hannah, but your daddy calls her wizzer. Only because she is not potty trained yet. We all love you and miss you so much.

Good Night Dude.
Love Mommy

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