So so sorry

I am in tears. I just learned that I child who I hosted for a weekend when my son was at Admiral Farragut Academy has died. I don’t even know what to say.

He got ill when he was staying with us, it was obvious that he was ill even before he came and I didn’t see it. I was so ill myself and not doing well as an AFA parent but they tolerated me for my son’s sake. My husband was the strong parent. I would have refused to have him stay with us if I could have because I sensed that I wasn’t up to it. But my husband would not have understood.

The chicken didn’t come out right because I was too nervous to cook and he, I wish I could remember his name, his father was a famous football player. He was holding his nose as he ate. He was such a little sweetheart. He said the sheets were silk and I had to explain that they were fine cotton. He talked to me about his mother and his sister and how they had vanilla ice cream. I just couldn’t tell that he was ill, I sensed something was wrong. I have never learned how to use modern day thermometers and I couldn’t take his temperature. I didn’t have the sense to take him back to Farragut, which was what needed to be done. So, the next day, I didn’t know what to do, I took them roller skating. Then we went back to Farragut and he was immediately taken to the hospital. He was there for months. I will not give out his personal health information but his illness was serious.

I have received information that he has died and that it is being put back to that weekend at our home in Seminole. This is scary and frightening as I was so trying to do the right thing and I so did not mean any harm to him. Obviously he was already ill when he was sent home to me and my son. I was barely making it myself and I was reliant myself on AFA for help with Ian. I am so, so sorry for what I am hearing. And there is nothing I can do to make amends. I am pouring out my sympathy and grief for this family. And my prayers.

That was the kind of thing, not to be rude, that the “wart-mole person” used to get into, but never anything so serious. I am such a different person now. I wish this young man a speedy trip to Heaven and the comfort of his parents.