Project 366 / 62 — Impossibly sad stories, Murfey and DMD

We’re all self-consumed, full of selfish goals and self pity — it’s sickening.

Why am I feeling like this today? Well I’ve just received an e-mail from a client who is looking to place some business with us. Their story is incredibly sad — they had a son who died of cancer aged just 9. My eldest son, who is my world, will be 9 in July so their story really hit home.

How do people cope?

Murfey, our dog, died on 27th April last year and there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of him and miss him. He got me through some tough times personally and I’m still mourning him. When he died we were devastated.

One of my first thoughts were with our friends Shelley and Geoff who’s son Fraser was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). It’s an incurable disease which will result, unless a cure is found, in premature death. My immediate thought was “how are they going to cope”? There was me struggling with the death of my dog — but a child?

Their story is the reason my wife and I fund raise. Of course when I say “fund raise” I mean “we push our bodies to the absolute limit in the hope that our friends, family and business acquaintances will donate money to this desperate cause”. Of course they don’t.

Yet here we are, accumulating wealth and spending money on mindless disposable crap that we don’t even need. These horrible life changing events happen to people — I pray that they don’t happen to you.