Jeff

This is a hard post to write. I want to let readers know that I will likely not be posting much for a while. On Wednesday afternoon my wonderful 14 year old son Jeffrey was hit in the back of the neck by a lacrosse ball during the warm-ups for a game. He died almost immediately. Although we will never know for sure, this suggests that there was some sort of structural anomoly in his brain.

In any case, Jeff was on life support for some time even though he was brain dead. This mostly was because we arranged for Jeff's internal organs to be taken for transplant and as of about 9:00 am this morning he is truly gone from us. That said, I hope that some of his smarts, verve, sense of humor and wackiness will go along to those who receive some small physical part of Jeff and that they will benefit from not just his life but receive too his love of it.

Please hug your loved ones and hold them tight for an extra moment or two today.

I love you Jeff and always will.
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News reports here and here and, especially, here for insight into the very, very low incidence of this sort of event.