9/21/2008 and "Team David"
I hope that anyone visiting David's LJ might be interested in suicide prevention efforts. I'm very involved with the Second Wind Fund, which pays for mental health counseling for youth 19 and under in the Denver metro area who are at-risk for suicide and uninsured/underinsured/not on Medicaid and with financial need. Our major fundraiser, a walk/run/ride, will take place on September 21, 2008, in Lakewood. There will again be a "Team David". I encourage those of you able to attend to do so. I'd love to see "Team David" grow in numbers each and every year! It would show me that David hasn't been forgotten and that his death wasn't totally a waste.
The "silver lining" for me is that I'm able to make a difference through Second Wind and help keep other families from going where mine has. So far we've helped over 900 kids! That's alot of families that hopefully will never have to experience the pain of losing a loved one to suicide. Unfortunately, that pain doesn't ever go away, although it does get somewhat easier to live with as time goes on. It's now been 5 and 1/2 years for me (David's suicide was on 7/1/2002) and I'm crying as I write this.
Take care,
Mary Wylie
David's (and Sarah's!) mom
The "silver lining" for me is that I'm able to make a difference through Second Wind and help keep other families from going where mine has. So far we've helped over 900 kids! That's alot of families that hopefully will never have to experience the pain of losing a loved one to suicide. Unfortunately, that pain doesn't ever go away, although it does get somewhat easier to live with as time goes on. It's now been 5 and 1/2 years for me (David's suicide was on 7/1/2002) and I'm crying as I write this.
Take care,
Mary Wylie
David's (and Sarah's!) mom