Jan & Merv’s Story

We lost our precious grandaughter Kacee Michelle Price on June 27th 2000, just one week before she would have been 7 months old.

This was surely one of the hardest things any family would ever have to deal with.

Kacee had older siblings, so we decided to help them through their grief & remember their sister, we would buy fairies if we saw a special one, and at Christmas time we made Kacee her own Christmas tree with just her special decorations with some tinsel & lights. Over the years we have had to get 2 bigger trees to fit all her special token along with those for 3 other family babies who didn’t make it over the years, although none of them were SIDS babies.

During our journey we have met some wonderful people through our association with SIDS and Kids Queensland, and also heard some very, very sad stories from other families.

Because we got such wonderful much needed support from everyone, we decided we would like to be an ongoing member of the SIDS & Kids family so that we can give back to others who are going through what we did.

During our wonderful journey with SIDS and Kids Queensland, we have been involved with a Grandparents group, (which is sadly no longer), Coping with Christmas workshops every year, the Memorial/Remembrance Service every year, & Merv is actively involved in Mens Den.

In the last couple of years we have become involved in fundraising with 2 groups of motorcyclists and currently our family is working hard to put together an event to be held on September 17th 2016. At present we are holding sausage sizzles/ barbecues at Pattons Big Gun Butchers every few weeks to raise funds for the outlays for the September event & we will still also be involved in the IWI Riders one day bike ride in May, and also off to Byron Bay to attend the Bbq & send off of The Great Australian Ride in August.

In December 2015, we also got involved with Darryl Ferguson with his Family Fun Day to raise funds for him to participate in a 2016 Trek for SIDS and Kids.

We really enjoy doing what we do so we can give back to others who need support on their journey of grieving.

Jan & Merv QLD

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