Micheal was born Aug. 29th 1991, he was our first son, born with a hole in his heart and a cleft lip and palate. He was 5lbs 2 oz at birth and we cried when he was born, we knew we had a tough battle ahead of us, but he was so special in some way, its hard to tell just how special he was. He spent the first 5 months of his life in the hosital 1 ½ months were in intesive care unit. He was on 3 kinds of medication (I was scared that I would give him to much or too little), in Jan. of 1992 we brought him home from the hospital and I swore he wouldn't be back in their that long again. As he grew he was a very happy, loving, funny, little boy, he loved everyone and everything that he saw. I remember this one time we lived in a farm house and he was outside playing with his older sister and she came in and said "mom Mikey is stuck", I said "What do you mean he stuck" , well I went outside and there he was deep into mud up to his knees stuck in the mud, well I laughed so hard I almost cried. I have alot of memories of our son, but the worst memory of him was the day of his accident . We had been in Maine all weekend and when he went back home in Vermont I noticed that we needed to go grocery shopping, so we went, well on the way in Mikey (nicknamewas mikey and BUD) was a a soda machine and he puched one of the buttons and out came a soda, he was tickled pink not having to put any money in the darn thing, so we started to go shopping, well it was afternoon time and my kids were hungry (we hadn't eattin all day) so when we came to the meat section I grabbed a package of hot dogs (like I have done all the time) and they started to eat then and then thats when all the traggidy happened, Mikey came up to me and the last words out of his mouth were "mommy" (to this day its so hard to believe that his last word was mommy) and I notice he was choking and I started to scream to his daddy, and the rest was so hard after waitting about 20 mins for the 911 people to get there it was too late (911 had to be called 3 times), well once they got him to the hospital Mikey wasn't breathing and his heart had stopped, well all of a sudden Mikey got his heart going again so we figured he had a fighting chance......then they told us because of no oxegen getting to the brain for 20 mins he slipped into a coma, then after 3 days they decided to take a brain scan and found he had no brain waves, so we had to make a dession that will be the hardest dession of all times do we wait and hope and pray he comes out of the coma or do we just let him go home to GOD. We didn't want him to suffer anymore then he had to so we let him go home. It was the hardest thing ever to do, and I will miss my Mikey always and forever until I can be with him once again. One very special memory that his daddy has of him is this. Everynight when daddy came home from work Mikey would climb up on to daddy's chair and sit there for the longest time without moving or saying anything , Mikey was a great cuddler and we will miss him forever.

Untill we meet again. You are always in my heart, mind and soul.