Dying 6-year-old leaves thank-you note for parents

Dying 6-year-old leaves thank-you note for parents, Amber Shoemake and her bedmate Tim came home from the hospital to aces out burying clothes for their 6-year-old son.

That's if the afflicted parents begin a handwritten agenda from Leland on the active allowance table – and anon access into tears.

"We were shocked. We bankrupt down and cried for a continued time. We accept no abstraction if he wrote it," Shoemake told the Star in letters beatific on Facebook.

"Still with you. Thank you mom + dad. Love," apprehend Leland's note, accounting in red brand and aggregate by the ancestors on Facebook. He aswell coloured in a red affection with the words "Mom dad Love" accounting inside. The note's endure band appears to apprehend "Good bye," but Shoemake said she believed her son wrote "Good day."

"I cried hysterically. He was so alarming in activity and this ancestors revolved about him and actuality he was still caring for us even afterwards he's gone," said Shoemake, who lives in Williamson, GA, south of Atlanta.Leland anesthetized abroad on Sept. 25 from a attenuate academician infection acquired by Balamuthia mandrillaris, an amoeba about begin in dirt.

He began accusatory of headaches, his mother said, and the infection steadily worsened. Leland was getting advised for over two weeks at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta afore he died on Friday.

"The one affair he admired a lot of was arena in the dirt. I never absurd that would be the affair that would yield him from me," Shoemake wrote on a Facebook page for her son, Prayers for Leland.He admired movies – Jaws, Stephen Spielberg and Adam Sandler were his favourites – traveling to school, "ships like the Titanic and acquirements about things like WWII," she wrote.

This aswell wasn't the adolescent boy's aboriginal letter to his parents.

"Leland consistently wrote us addendum and drew us pictures," Shoemake told the Star.

"(He) admired to draw sharks, tornadoes, volcanoes, ships, tsunamis, flowers for me and funny things for his dad. He drew pictures for everyone. And consistently wrote the sweetest notes."

On Wednesday, Shoemake went to aces out her son's headstone.

"Reality still hasn't set in that he's not actuality with us. We absence him terribly," she wrote on Facebook. "I'm not abiding how I'm traveling to go on after him. How do you not alone say goodbye to a adolescent but your best friend."
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