Dates Remembered….
Have you ever had a date planted in your brain you can’t get rid of? Well I have a knack for remembering dates. Good dates, birthdays, anniversaries, and bad dates….
When Justin fell out of a two-story window and can live to tell about it- Sept. 9, 1998 in College Park, Ga. He had just turned 4 in May that year.
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Kristina busted out her front teeth from a bike accident, June 12, 2002 in Simpsonville, SC. She had just turned 10 the month before.
Then there is the most famous date that is edged in my brain. June 5, 2000 when Jessica had to have surgery to remove a brain tumor. This story actually started in May of 2000 when Jessica started to have really bad headaches. Jessica was 9 1/2 at this time. We thought she was having them because she had broken her glasses. We were living in Bluffton, SC near Hilton Head, SC at the time. We took her to the ER on June 3rd that night when she started throwing up and she was not able to walk on her own. The doctor was baffled at first and then decided to run a CAT scan of her head. That is when he found a mass in the back of her head the size of a baseball. This is when the Moffitt family would not be the same ever again. They stablized her and sent her by ambulance to MUSC in Charleston, SC. We (the rest of the family, grabbed clothes and headed to Charleston to be with our little girl.)
After the diagnoses it was rather a blur but we eventually moved to Charleston to begin Jessica’s treatment that lasted for 14 months.
Each year on this date I start remembering all the things we went through and all the emotions that we felt. Jessica is gone from earth but she is never forgotten from our hearts or our minds.
