The Boisvert Life

My heart is breaking tonight. How can one little girl that I never even knew have touched my life so closely…..so deeply? I suppose it’s a hurt you can only truly empathize with or imagine, once you’ve become a mother yourself.

I haven’t written about Allie on my site before, but I now feel compelled to because this is my only outlet to speak about her. I’ve been following Allison Scott’s story for a couple of months now, through the ups and downs, silently praying and cheering her on in her fight for her life. Somehow this little angel crept under my skin and, even though I never met her, I loved her.

Allie was about the same age as Lindsay….perhaps that’s why her story has affected me so much….it hits really close to home, and I realize that it just as easily could have been my little girl battling for her life.

Allie was born a healthy, sweet, happy baby, but, around four months of age, after a week long fever, her pediatricians sent her to specialists and she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She went on and off of every medication they know of to try to fight it, but tonight, it was a fight she lost. She passed on at 11:05pm ET, and is no longer in pain, but I can’t even fathom the anguish her parents are feeling right now. They luckily have a very positive, faith driven outlook on Allie’s life and her purpose on this earth, but these things really shake my faith to the core and leave me angry, hopeless, and wondering if there really is any bigger picture, anyone “driving the car” so to speak. Why would these two loving, wonderful parents loose such a precious child, and have to go through all of this torment, when there are parents out there every day who abuse and neglect their children??? I just don’t understand.

I don’t know. I’m exhausted. I better go to bed. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day. If you’d like to read about Allie’s life, please visit her family’s web site, and please, if you have the means…..donate or run in a sponsored race to help find a cure for this terrible disease. It could just as easily be someone you love who has to fight for their life next. Let’s do everything we can to see that fewer people have to go through what sweet Allie and her family has gone through. And please keep the Scotts in your thoughts and prayers.