I recently spoke to Heather James about following through on her donation to Doernbecher's for her son's,Sam, birthday event 4-24, and she gave me some rather upsetting news. She asked me if she could donate it in the name of Luke who was a patient up until recently at Doernbecher's. She told me how her family had a picture of some of us, with Luke, at an Event at the hospital, and how much he loved "Star Wars." I racked my brain for a minute and asked if Luke's last name was Jansen. She was quite shocked when I asked as yes that was him.
I remember Luke quite distinctly as his name was is sorts of ESB characters. I even had a conversation with both Martin, and Stephanie, about the names.
Steve, Luke's dad,is a huge star wars fan and just had to name his son after a character.
Luke passed away just last week. He was only 7 years old. To make the tragedy worse two days after Luke passed Steve's father collapsed and passed as well.
When I was told this I had to compose myself because I just wanted to cry.
I can't even begin to explain how much I love making the children happy when we go through the hospitals,
because you just never know how important it is to them when they are in such a dark place, and that little bit of light we give them could be their last.....
