November 11, 2020
One year ago, 11/11, our dear nephew Becket More, barely 8 months old, passed away. Long story shorter, when he was still in the womb he had a stroke which he survived. Fast forward to November 6 last year, he went in for surgery, due to that he had started to develop fluid in his brain. Surgery seemed to have been successful…until two days later. They had to perform a second surgery and found that something had gone wrong during the first operation (or something, I don’t know details). There was nothing they could do to save him. Legally they could not pull the plug until 48 hours later, so he died sometime after midnight on November 11.
This was very tough for us all to handle. Jim was in Minnesota at a college football game that was just about to start when his mom called with the news (on Nov 9). He of course called me. I have never heard him this sad before. I was outside with Thor and as I walked into the lobby I started to cry. I could hear the excited fans in the background when I spoke to J, neither of us really said that much, we were both just in shock I think. I can’t even begin to imagine how his parents feel, still. They are in Cleveland now to visit his grave.
Becket was the happiest baby/person I’ve ever met. Always smiling, happy to just observe what was going on around him. I think we all felt that there was something special about him. All kids are special, but there was something extra about him. When we took him out in the stroller, everyone we met smiled back at him, he made everyone happy. It felt like he had an old soul and maybe his purpose in this life was to make people smile and feel at peace. I believe he succeeded with his life goal and was ready to leave this given body, leave this earth, he was enlightened. He was not taken from us for no reason, or at least that’s what I want to believe.
We only met him once, a couple of weeks before he passed, but like I said, there was something special about him. He will forever be in our hearts ♥
