Amazing love

Through all of Willy's illness, I think Alex has been the most affected. Sure, it hasn't been easy for me, at all, but my coping skills have been well exercised and had time to mature.

This poor child has seen his father at his weakest point and it scared him to no end.

As a parent you try your best to shield your children from the terrors and fears of the big bad outside world, but what do you do when that terror and fear invades your own home? When it can't be hidden and your children can't be protected from it?

You face it, head on. With prayer and faith, together. Knowing, believing, that no matter what you have to deal with, you will get through.

So through all of this, we've been extremely open with the boys. I mean it's not like we can hide the fact that dad was critically ill and needed drastic attention.

One night while Willy was in the hospital, I found Alex in my room, under Willy's covers. Just laying there where dad sleeps, it broke my heart to see him there, hoping, wishing that dad was ok, he'd been so sick the past several months.

It is so amazing to see these two together. Lex is our miracle baby and totally "father's boy" (yes, I have no idea why but he calls him "father" lol) These two have been inseparable since Lex was born, dad has been home with him and cared for him all these years.

These pictures were taken in the hospital when Willy first went on dialysis. Alex was so glad to see him up and alert after being so sick for so long.