Landon Boothe Life Story & Time Line

Landon fought so hard and was a brave little boy during his short little life. He touched the lives of thousands, if not millions, of people while he was with us. In our family, he changed our lives so much and strengthened the bond between us and restored our faith in God 1000%. I've said this many times since his passing, that his strength and courage and bravery during his battle with the life threatening defects that he had, taught us adults more about life in his short lifetime than we will ever learn in our lifetimes.

What Amber and all of us want most of all is for Landon's memory and legacy to be remembered. The strength and bravery that he showed over the six months during his life was amazing to say the least. For us to sit back and do nothing would be an injustice to this courageous little man.

God sent us the gift of Landon for a reason and he gave Landon such amazing courage and strength to endure the most horrendous medical procedures no baby should ever have to suffer. But our Landon did and did it with such grace and the will to live. Each time after each procedure when we all thought this is it, he would come through like a true champion and hero. He was such an amazing little boy. We all miss him so so much. He will be forever in our hearts and "Our Little Hero and Miracle Baby".

He amazed all of his doctors and the nursing staff at Children's and UAB Hospitals here in Birmingham. As his doctors put it "Landon is writing his own pages in the medical journals". His lab work was sent all over the world for testing because he was such a rare case. His birth diagnosis of Pentalogy of Cantrell is explained is his "About Him" section. He was a rare child and puzzled his doctors on a daily basis just by surviving for 6 months with this rare defect. He won the battle against the rare defect against all odds and truly amazed and won the hearts of millions of people and a few medical professionals at UAB and Children's Hospital here in Birmingham and around the world.

There are no foundations that have been started for the rare defect that Landon was born with after all there have only been 50 cases ever reported having had this defect. However, there are individual organizations that are dear to our hearts and are raising awareness and helping families like ours and that have defects like Landon's. These are organizations that we are dedicated to helping simply because they are there to help children and families who are in need of help and they all have been or are in situations that we were in with Landon. If you would like to make a donation in memory of Landon, or just make a donation, please visit their web-site listed for further information or contact me personally for information.

First and foremost is an organization that we truly believe in. They helped Amber and Landon more than any organization out there. They have helped so many families and children in need at the Children's Hospital here in Birmingham, AL. If you know of a family at Children's that is in need of assistance please contact them directly or contact me and I can put you in contact with them. If you would like to help by making a donation whether financial or a material donation, they take them all, please do so by contacting the ministry directly or by contacting me. I will make sure that they get the donation. We are working with them to try to give back some of what was given to us and to make sure that Jacob's memory is kept alive through our precious Landon with the help of all of you, our friends. We know that they are buddies in heaven now. Everything they make goes toward helping these families and the upkeep on the thrift store. Please go to the web-site below and read precious Jacob's story and how the ministry got started.

Jacob's ministry helped Amber and Landon more than any other organization while they were at Children's the entire six months of his life. Had it not been for them, Amber at times would not have had money to eat or money to pay her rent. They were a real blessing for her and for our family. I also saw Mr. and Mrs. Harper visiting other families in the PICU while Landon was there. They came by and visited Landon regularly and never failed to pray for him before they left. Even if we weren't there, they still visited with our little man and prayed with him. They, too along with their daughter Trovia grew to love our little Landon as we did. We are dedicated to helping them to help other families in Jacob's memory.

Landon, as part of the Pentalogy of Cantrell, also had a Diaphragmatic Hernia. This is one of the defects that caused so many problems for Landon and his breathing difficulties. This defect affects a babies developement of not only the lungs but in most cases the heart and other organs as well. Little is known about this deadly birth defect. Most babies born with this defect will die at birth or shortly after depending on the severity of the defect. Our Landon was one of the rare few to survive with this birth defect as long as he did. We must find a cause and a cure of this life threatening defect. For more information about this defect, please visit the CHERUBS web-site.

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Click here to sign the petition: http://www.gopetition.com/online/16298.html

Please take a moment to visit this site and sign the petition. Angelina's CHD Warriors put the petition togethter and it needs 50,000 signatures to even begin the process to get CHD awareness in the media. It only takes a second and there is no obligation or fees invovled. Please do this for all these precious babies that have and struggle everyday to overcome this life threatening defect. For more information on the petition, please visit Angelina's CHD Warriors and to order the book created by Seraphim books for CHD Awareness: http://www.myspace.com/angelinasfriends.

As part of the Pentalogy of Cantrell, Landon also had a Congenital Heart Defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot. You can find out more about this defect and the other CHD at this web-sites listed above. CHD's are one of the most preventable deaths among birth defects in my opinion. However, most of them go undetected until it is too late, causing death in the infant. These are the organizations that we are asking that you contribute to in memory of our precious little Landon.

Until we meet again, little man, fly high Angel, and know that not a day goes by that we don't think of you.