By Katie Jackson From Friends of Ustick Road Facebook (edited for church website)
April 13, 2024 (12:09 PM)
I have absolutely no words so here goes nothing.
My heart breaks to let all of our family and friends know that our sweet, strong, brave lil E man fought his last fight here on earth April 11th due to a central line complication during his stem cell collection & boy did he fight lemme tell ya. Nothing can explain the pain and devastation we feel. This was the least expected. It was not what was supposed to happen & in this moment I can’t help but feel like that was not how Eli’s story was supposed to end. I know that if love could have saved my sweet boy he would be here & I wouldn’t be trying to figure out the words to say. The 364 days that we got to spend with Eli were nothing short of perfect. I am so so thankful for every single one of them & and I’m so lucky that I got to be his mama. I will continue to thank God every day for what he gave me. Eli was so perfect and we miss him so so much. I don’t know how we are going to learn how to live in a world without Eli, but I sure have hope that maybe one day we just might figure it out. Thank you to everyone for their love and support. Thank you to the medical staff all the nurses and doctors that took such good care of Eli after his cancer diagnosis (which he would have made his b--ch no doubt) to those who did everything they could to keep him here with us. We know he was so loved and cared for.
On April 12th, yesterday was Eli’s first birthday. We sent him some messages on balloons, lit off some fireworks and had some cake. And d—n do I wish Eli could have been right there with us so badly. The sky was beautiful and I knew he was right there with us even if he wasn’t in my arms anymore. I know he probably had the best birthday ever and he saw us down here smiling just for him. Must’ve been quite the party up there because he ended it with a firework show himself and lit up the whole sky with lightning.
Happy heavenly birthday to my sweet sweet angel boy (a day late understandably). Thank you so much for picking me to be your mommy. If I got the chance to do it all over again I would a million times. I wish I had so much more time with you. We all would trade you places if we could. Thank you for everything that you’ve taught me. Thank you for being mine. I miss you so much already. I’ll see you again so soon sweet boy. Mommy loves you.
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Anne Mazza’s Celebration of Life
Ustick Road Church of the Nazarene, Caldwell, Idaho
October 23, 2021 11AM