A turn for the worse by Kelly - Sean's Mom-

~ 11:56AM Saturday August 2nd, 2008 Sean's heart beat for the last time. With Nicole by his side, encouraging Addie and Ella to say good bye to Daddy - There were also six of us there Nikki's Mom Fonda, Sean's Dad's Marty & Will, Sean's sister Kasey and I. We were just trying our best to follow Nikki's Brave courage. There were four of Sean's knuckle head friends in the waiting room - Eric, Jesse, Big Josh and Dan. I thought it was the coolest things that they drove all that way that early in the AM - it touched my heart to tears. This is really difficult to type - as my heart breaks! But STILL there is much to be thankful for! In fact just a few short weeks ago I asked Sean what HE was thankful to God for and HE said his health.!? Sean was having a pretty good week - you know as good as anyone in a hospital having chemo-therapy can have. The chemo was at night which gave him and Nikki more freedom in the day. Nikki said that on one AM Sean started a walk down to the "nutrition" room to get sugar for his coffee and he wheeled his IV all the way down and Nikki caught up to him and realized that he wasn't even hooked up to his IV -of course Nikki thought this was hysterical - Sean threw some sugar packets at her to get her to Stop laughing. I'm especially thankful for this laughter
A TURN FOR THE WORSE happened when they tried to wake him Friday to get his vitals. Without being there myself I really can't say any of the details. But I do know that things never really did get any better. They did a EEG that AM and another one Saturday AM - both of them showed very little to no brain activity and although his heart was fine his breathing was happening only by a machine. That's all I have to say about that.
I find myself thinking about Sean and Nikki and when Nikki was in labor for Addie - I think about how I was always so impressed with Sean's support to Nikki as she had such bad back labor - Sean stood over Nikki (what seemed like hours) with his hand on Nikki's back (just so) to ease her suffering the best way he could. I guess I was thinking about that because Nikki's support for Sean through this was SO (I don't have word's to accurately describe). Her love and support for Sean was just amazing and her growing intelligence about all the medical knowledge was mind boggling to me. No one could have done a better job than Nicole! We are so thankful to God for Sean's LIFE. People ask, and you may be wondering what YOU can do - Please be thankful to God with us as he allows us to live forever by the power of His blood. Of course we ask him to heal our broken hearts (especially Nicole's, Addie's & Ella's). Thanks for keeping us in your prayers too.