Horror and sadness happened to the John Travolta and Kelly Preston family when they lost their sixteen year old son Jett today who has died in their vacation home in the Bahamas from complications of the below diagnosed disorder that he has had since he was a young child:
Symptoms Information from Wikipedia:
“Kawasaki disease often begins with a high and persistent fever that is not very responsive to normal doses of paracetamol (acetaminophen) or ibuprofen. The fever may persist steadily for up to two weeks and is normally accompanied by irritability. Affected children develop red eyes, red mucous membranes in the mouth, red cracked lips, a "strawberry tongue",[8] iritis, keratic precipitates (detectable by an ophthalmologist but usually too small to be seen by the unaided eye), and swollen lymph nodes. Skin rashes occur early in the disease, and peeling of the skin in the genital area, hands, and feet (especially around the nails and on the palms and soles) may occur in later phases. Some of these symptoms may come and go during the course of the illness. If left untreated, the symptoms will eventually relent, but coronary artery aneurysms will not improve, resulting in a significant risk of death or disability due to myocardial infarction (heart attack). If treated in a timely fashion, this risk can be mostly avoided and the course of illness cut short.”
So upsetting and we do remember when Jett was first born those sixteen years ago in Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach Florida because it was our neighboring city to Ormond Beach where we were living at that time.
The Travoltas were living in a unique housing development called Spruce Creek Fly In, in Port Orange where your plane was kept in your own personal hangar next to your home much like your garage for your car; this small town was also nearby where we lived, south of Daytona where we were just north of, in fact our sons graduated from one of Daytona’s two high school’s, theirs was called Seabreeze.
John Travolta as everyone knows is an avid pilot, but of course where else would he live.
When his and Kelly's first child was born the story was that the way he got the hospital personnel to keep the birth quiet until they were home safe and sound was to promise them that he would take pictures with each and every one of them if they did, they did and he did.
And that is why I remember, it was such a very nice doable way to temporarily fend off the paparazzi.
Our hearts and sincere condolences go out to the Travolta family; losing a child is the most unimaginable thing a parent can go through.
In a different direction I will go: I called my youngest sister-in-law today the mother of three incredible intelligent adult children; two young men and a daughter, ranging in age from 20 to 26.
Fortunately, they are well health wise.
The eldest son is a pharmacist.
The middle one is finding himself and in that effort is perplexing his family, huh? How odd, he is a middle child, Mom.
My husband, your brother is too.
The daughter is only twenty and has found her love match that she is quite serious about and apparently is approved by the entire family, brothers, Mom and Dad that is, but Grandma feels she is too young.
They all live up north in Bucks County Pennsylvania where it was in the 30’s there while we chatted and here, in blissfully tropical Florida it was in the high 70’s.
And chat we did for over two hours!
Fortunately, I have rollover minutes on my cell phone, over 2500 right now, and we only talk about once every six months, but we do cover a lot of territory when we do.
The call was made to wish them all a very happy healthy new year, and I do believe we covered that too.
My husband was kind enough to make dinner while this all went on, but suggested I say good- bye when it was ready, and so I did.
Good night to all and to all catch up with someone you haven’t spoken with in a while, it’s a small thing but it makes everyone feel better.
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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