The story you are about to read was written by Emily Rojek who is a 7th grader, she wrote this for one of her class papers. Emily knew Parker his whole life and spent so much time with him. In her words this is her story of how she remembers what happened May 23rd, 2009 and the days that followed.
Emily thank you for your strength to re-call how you felt, you are very strong.
Life Changing
Two years ago some family friends had a house warming party. The parents name was Ashley, and Shane also their three kids names are Parker, Kyran and Ashley. All the kids were playing upstairs playing in their bedrooms. Then Parker was pushing on the screen window with his hands, and he fell out the window. His mom (Ashley) saw Parker’s shirt when he fell from the window. Ashley called 911. The ambulance came a few minutes later.
Parker had to be life lifted to Emanuel hospital because it was faster. When he got to the hospital Ashley and Shane were there waiting for the news about him. A little while later the doctors came out and told her and Shane that he had to be rushed into surgery. They signed the papers for him to be able to go into surgery. Before the surgery Ashley had a chance to hold her son. During Surgery he hadn’t made it. The doctor came into the waiting area and told the mom and dad the bad news; “ I’m sorry he didn’t make it,” the doctor had told them. Once she heard the news she fainted.
The doctors took the mom in to check if she was okay and she hadn’t damaged anything. A couple days later my mom called my dad while I was with him at REI, she was talking to him for about 10 minutes. I had no clue what she was telling my dad on the phone. Once we finally got into the store I had asked my dad, “What was mom telling you” he didn’t reply and changed the subject. Later that night my parents finally told me what happened and I was devastated.
A week later on Wednesday there had been a memorial service. At the memorial service, everybody was in bright colors Ashley and Shane didn’t want people in black and white. Before the actual service started there was a room we could go in and see Parker in his casket, he was dressed in his favorite superhero costume from Halloween and he had a hat on. There were toys, letters, flowers and a few other things in the casket. Once the service started songs were sung, people came up and spoke about memories they had about him, and people prayed. After all the songs, praying and speaking it was time to go to the place where he was going to get buried. Once every body was there the kids got in a line and got handed a flower. Each kid went around the casket and layed in his or her flower down, then the adults did the same thing. When every body was done we got handed a blue balloon. If you wanted, we could write a message and attach it to the balloon. On the count of three we all let go of our balloons and watched them float into the sky. People stayed for a little bit looking around the graveyard, but my family went back to the church. When every body was back at the church lunch was served. While eating we watched a slideshow. Around 2:30 PM my family drove home in silence. To this day on his birthday we send balloons up to him.
Sincerely,
Emily Rojek
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