Was scanning thru and came across Brandon's page, and I must say, it's one of the darlingest pages I have seen.  I'm here because God led me to this wonderful web site.  In Feb '07, I lost my 17 year old nephew, Andy Krout, he was one of 13 nephews I had, and was 2 weeks older than our middle son.  They were very close, they spent weekends together almost since they crawled, Andy was a very special part of our family, he was like one of my own sons to my husband and I.  We loved him very much.  Andy was playing basketball for his high school and had taken an elbow to the left shoulder area.  He had allergies that were bothering him and had a pretty good cold at the time also.  But the Dr's were treating him for a muscle strain from the basketball game.  Two weeks later, on a Fr afternoon, his dad took him to the ER only to find the doctors were too busy to see him and suggested my brother take Andy to the family DR on MOnday.  Andy told his dad he felt tough but wanted to play the next night at b-ball regionals.  He did not, he couldn't move without aching like "I feel like an 90 year old man trying to walk to get my false teeth"  (is what he said), anyway, he did not play Sat 's game and then in the early hrs of Sun he collapsed while talking to his mom.  He never woke up at the hospital. 

No one knows only God,  we know we will see our precios Angel's again. Somedays, it's just not soon enough.  A person wrote to Andys page that she had lost her son, and she described her heart like a house with rooms and she can go to that  room where her son is whenever she wants to talk to him or visit him.  I tried doing that and it helped me sooo much.  I miss my nephew and the hurt is like that of a parent,  I don't know how my brother and his wife make it thru but I do know, if you leave your faith with God and let him guide you, you will find some comfort knowing that you little angel is at peace and  all the prayers in the worlddd go out to you and your family.  Our family will always have you in our prayers and let this web site help you to reach out and you will find that there are so many little angels that God really must have some special party going on up there.  Take Care and God bless you.

Brandon, Noni and Abuela sending you your balloons and love on Your second Heavenly Birthday. We love you and miss you so very much.

Brandon,today you have been gone for 20 months and my heart is hurting so bad, I just want to be with you and hold you.Smell that sweet skin and rub your hair.Your Noni will forever keep you alive in her. Sending you all my love and promise that we will be together again..I love you blue eyes.

Noni