Alexandra parker's Blog (6)

i am crying as hard as i did when Boey passed. A healthy little third grader named alexis johnson, at my school, passed away today. She was in the gym after school and got hit in the head with a basketball, she was fine at first, but then it started to hurt her and she started screaming, she went and laid down in her classroom, and my choir teacher, ms. marla woke her up, she puked blood, and then she couldn't breathe, her dad came and took her to the hopsital and they put a tube down her throat… Continue

First of all, let me tell you praise the lord that whitney is okay and is just suffering from acid reflex, but i have another friend hanna who has a problem. She has been having severe abdominal pains and every time she went to the hospital the doctors kept saying it was constipation, well finally a doctor had her get a CAT scan to see what was wrong. She has tumora, a disease that starts at birth and creates benign tumors on her ovaries, she has to have 3 sugeries to remove the tumors, she is v… Continue

I am so priviliged and honored to be a part of this foundation, i really was inspired by boey, she is my absolute hero, tommorow my friend whitney has to have a ton of tests at the hospital, she has celiac disease but she is having frequent stomach aches and it concerned the doct… Continue

I am super excited for relay for life 2009!, my team, Boey's believers, is HUGE, its really encouraging. I have soo much support from my friends at school and church. We are even selling those silicone bracelets and they say : She believed, do you? boey byers 1999-2007. My church has a prayer room , its kinda dark but it has walls you can write on and one wall is just plastered with prayers, for the byers family. Alot of us pray for you each day, that God will lead you to do many more awesome th… Continue

last night, as i was watching extreme makeover home edition, i was watching as a fourteen year old named lizzie bell, had a rare blood disease present at birth, and causes her to get blood transfusions constantly and puts her in the hospital all the time. As i was learning a little more about her, i realized that she started an organization called lizzies loot and raised awareness for blood donations for kids like her. I also realized that she brought bears to kids in the hospital, and that she… Continue

i believe that no one is ever to small or too young to do something they believe in. Most people doubted the fact that i was old enough to run my own relay for life team in honor of boey, too young to hold a toy drive at my school for a local childrens hospital, and too young to ra… Continue