My beautiful daughter...gone.

[busylizzysmom]

My name is Leslie, I am new here. My daughter would have been 14 in a couple of weeks (August 14th) and I am having a hard time right now. She was 10 when she died in an ATV accident on 2/25/07. I am just having a hard time imagining her being a teen and the fact that she would have been starting high school this year. This sucks so bad! I have three other children my oldest daughter is 17 and I have two younger boys 8 and 10.....I look at my 10 year old son and just can't imagine her ever being that small....And then I look at him and would never let him on an adult sized ATV , why did I let her? Anyway the picture below was taken just a few hours before she went out to ride my 4-wheeler....her dad was testing his new camera and this was her last picture....We miss her so much

I now try to get the word out about how dangerous it is for parents to allow young children to ride adult sized ATV's, her story along with other children who have died is posted on this website : http://atvsafetynet.org and her photo, along with many other children was also shown on CBS early morning show a while back where they aired a piece about ATV's and young children....

[josephsmom90]

Busylizzysmom,

Hi, I'm Elaine. I am so very sorry for your loss! I understand, I feel your pain, I'm glad you found us. I too imagne how my son would be, what he'd be doing. He was 19 and we lost him in June of 09. the whole story is long n twisted, won't go into it now. Go to loss of a child, then click on the link that you want to be in. I'm in the loss of an adult child section. Your girl's photos are just beautiful. God bless.

Elaine

[westleysmom]

Leslie,

I found your beautiful girl's picture and story on the atv website.  My heart aches for you in your loss.  My son Westley died in his sleep in January at a friend's house and sometimes I still can't believe it.  You are doing a good thing letting them tell her story for others to see that it really can happen. 

Rhonda Westley's Mom

[Guest]

Dear Bizzylizzy'smom;

I'm so sorry for the loss of your beautiful little girl!  Please join us on loss of an adult child thread.  It doesn't matter how hold your child was when she died.  You will find a lot of support and validation there.  It's a much more active thread.

My daughter, Stephanie, died on Sunday August 9, 2009 at 10:55 am.  She was 28 yrs old.  She left behind three young children who my husband and I are raising.  She lost control of the 4-wheeler she was riding and crashed into a barbed wire fence.  It slit ehr throat, severing the coratid artery.  She died immediately. 

I don't even like seeing children riding smaller, child size, 4-wheelers or motor bikes.  I just don't think they have any business on them....but, my daughter wasn't a child,. However, she was on a 4-wheeler she had no business being on.  It was too fancy for her skills.  She was careless.  The only comfort I take is that she died having fun and she really didn't have time to be scared and she didn't feel any pain.  According the the coroner, anyway. 

Susannah/Stephanie's mom

[Kelly]

Dear Members,

We are excited to mention that we are moving to a more new and improved message boards on MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 9th! The boards will be done for a few hours while we are making the conversation. Remember we posted information about this move a month ago. For some of you this might seem a bit sudden,  but when we were reviewing the site we determined the current message board you are using is out of date and the company that designed it is no longer in existence. The good news is this new message board will have new features that have been requested in the past like more fields we can add to your profiles and a chat room up to 20 people at one time. If we find the chat room is bursting at the seams we will add additional room for extra people. All your old posts, private messages and such will be migrated to the new message board. You might have to put up your profile picture again but not sure. The new company will be doing the migration for us. Here is a short list of some of the new features on the board:

- Custom Profile Fields- Users can customize their profile pages by selecting a background color or background image, with tiling options.- Facebook and Twitter Integration- users can respond to multiple posts at once with "mini-quote"- Pinned discussion threads - like welcome to our board etc.- Announcements made across some boards or the entire message board- Search: Users can easily find all content generated by a particular member, by clicking the 'Find Content' button that appears on the main profile page, or in the Mini Profile Popup which can be accessed throughout the board. The results page allows content to be filtered by application, as well whether the member created it or merely participated in it. - Privacy: allows users to sign in anonymously, hiding them from the online users list. Users also have the option to disable personal conversations and user-to-user emails, as well as ignore other users if necessary.

The next exciting piece of news about the new message board is it will have a new domain name of www.grieving.com for search engine optimization purposes. It will still be apart of Beyond Indigo and can be found through www.beyondindigo.com. We will be redirecting your current URL's to this new domain name but we might miss a few. If that is the case simply go back to www.grieving.com or www.beyondindigo.com to find your message board thread. We will try to make the transition as seamless as possible. 

The bottom line is the new board will give us room to grow our community and more options to interact better with each other. 

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