May 3, 2007 – December 20, 2008 = 19 months and 17 days.
This past Saturday, August 7, 2010, marked 19 months and 18 days since Alexander left us. He’s now been gone longer than he was with us. I had been dreading the day for months. When the actual day happened, it wasn’t as hard as I imagined. I found it didn’t matter how long Alexander was gone. The fact is he is gone and I’ll never again have the wonderful gift of a hug or a kiss from him.
As a grieving parent, you try not to think of these “anniversaries” but sometimes you can’t help it. They just creep into your mind.
I should be running after a 3 year old these days but instead I’m left to grieve the loss of my child. I miss Alexander so much.
Plans for Alexander’s Run are shaping up. We’ve got a great group of people helping us organize the run. It should be a wonderful day to raise money for SUDC research and Alexander’s scholarship fun while remembering Alexander and all the other children who have lost their lives to SUDC.
I’m so sorry for the pain you are going through. I’m not far enough out to say that my daughters been gone longer than she was with me but its a day I think about. Already have marked on my calendar. How did you start the sudc run? Ive been contacting the sudc org and tryign to get information from them on how to do it and nobody answers me.