“Through all of the heartache and loss of both boys, loss of her job, having to move into a smaller

MIAMI — When Felicia Peete adopted four young siblings from foster care, she moved out of her Orlando area retirement community into a big new home where they could sing and roller-skate, far away from the memories of living in cars and homeless shelters. She imagined birthday and graduation celebrations with her four great nephews and niece, never dreaming that within two years she'd be planning funerals for her eight and nine-year old sons.
The children, travel agencies in manila philippines all under the age of seven, had a tumultuous two years before 55-year-old Peete adopted them in 2010. They had stopped going to school, their father went to prison travel agencies in manila philippines and their mother was struggling with drug abuse. They lacked basic hygiene and didn't know how to use toilet paper or brush their teeth. The training was arduous at times with four little ones, but "Mama Gail" as they called her, was good natured and she longed to make up for their past hurts.
But several travel agencies in manila philippines months after the adoption, Peete worried something was wrong with then 7-year-old Tyler. The math whiz with a sophisticated vocabulary went from helping his siblings with their homework to getting D's and F's in school. Doctors treated him for hyperactivity disorder, but the symptoms progressed. Tyler began drooling and dragging his right leg.
After a series of lengthy genetic tests, Tyler was diagnosed travel agencies in manila philippines with Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare genetic disease that typically strikes young boys, leading to blindness, deafness and dementia and killing them within a few years.
Then, little Tyveon was hospitalized for nearly four months after his brain started swelling. travel agencies in manila philippines In the hospital bed next to his, his brother Tyjuan, was recovering from a stem cell treatment Peete hoped would save his life. The boys walked the hospital hallways together, dragging along their metal polls with medical tubes.
No longer able to talk, the always affectionate Tyjuan often signed "I love you" and, blew kisses travel agencies in manila philippines to comfort "Mama Gail". Peete helped him Skype with his two siblings back in Orlando and tried to stay positive.
"About a week before he died he looked at me and smiled and the tears rolled down his eyes like he knew what was going to happen and he knew I was going to be in pain. He just looked at me and I knew he was saying, 'I love you, Mama, I'm going to be OK,'."
The eight-year-old died in the hospital this past fall, away from his beloved siblings in a strange city. Peete waited to tell the other children in person that Tyjuan was in heaven with Tyler helping God watch over them.
As the family reeled from the boys' deaths, medical travel agencies in manila philippines expenses were mounting. Tyveon was on a dozen medications a day. Peete barely had time to pay off Tyler's funeral and now she was planning Tyjuan's. She lost her sales job at a cable company and took a pay cut to work from home to as the boys' medical needs grew. This December, she moved the family into a smaller house along with her two grown daughters, who often watch the children.
Peete tried to comfort herself by watching videos of the boys singing and dancing, but she grew angry at God and stopped going to church. She blamed child welfare workers for not diagnosing the boys while in foster care and blamed herself for not being able to save them.
An anonymous donor stepped forward this month to pay off $1,700 of Tyjuan's outstanding funeral bill. The Department of Children and Families worked with organizations to buy them nearly $600 worth of Christmas presents.
"Through all of the heartache and loss of both boys, loss of her job, having to move into a smaller home, and getting treatment for Tyveon, Mrs. Peete has been kind and hopeful," said Salena Burden, an adoption caseworker.