Today, April 29 my Stepson Jeffrey Allen Collins passedfrom this life into Heaven.
I met Jeffrey and his sister Janet when I married their father, Lou, Oct 7 2000. What a very happy day for Lou and I. Meeting his first two children.
When Lou took me to meet Janet and Jeffrey they were sitting side by side in a wheelchair designed to make their lives comfortable. These two beautiful children were conceived in love and both were born into a life of pain and changes. Like most babies, they grew daily and developed into very observant and lovable children....then like a nightmare in their 5-6 year they changed. They regressed in development. Annette and Lou lovingly took both children to many doctors, and finally months later a diagnose was given. San Filippo desease. The cause, both parents had the same gene absent from their body makeup. Janet and Jeffrey would continue to degenerate for the remander of their lives, which Lou was advised would last approximately 15 years until they would pass nto a better place.
Flash ahead to say, approximately 37 years later. Today we say goodbye to a beautiful soul. Jeffrey is flying free and waiting for his sister to join him in a better place.
This photo above to me represents life. Death in the lying tree, life blooms again eternally in the spring daffodils that are beside the tree. All those dried and brown leaves, they represent to me, memories of the life we all live. To me this is nature's glory in the circle of life for each of us.
Jeffrey here is my prayer for you. May your new wings fit better than your human boday, and may your next life be fulfilled with everything you did not get to experience in this life you left today. Janet will come soon looking for you. and I know you will be waiting for her, just as these many years you sat side by side in your special chairs.
Rest in peace, my precious stepson. Dad and I miss you so much already.
Posted by Denise Collins April 31/17
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