We learned about the disease and which medical institutions were doing research. We traveled to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, three times each year. We collected binders full of research papers, notes, and questions. Gregory taught us how capable we could be, and how love could drive us to do so much, in so little time. Gregory taught us how selfless we could become.
All parents know that selfless devotion which grows within, upon the birth of a beautiful child.
That selflessness was brought to a peak one Sunday morning in the emergency room at Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara, California. As his naked body lay on the sterile white paper, tired and shivering from fever, I sat on a stool as the doctors and nurses scurried back and forth, in obvious concern. As I drifted off into a dream-like state I had a conversation with God. I asked that Gregory take my health, and that I take his medical problems. There was no hesitation, there were no second thoughts.