Errol Milner Clifford 2006-2009

Errol Milner Clifford was born with a significant heart defect and a cognitive disability that prevented him from walking or talking. As we grieved the child we had anticipated, Errol’s full-bodied smile and irrepressible laugh turned our sorrow into joy, and taught us that many of the best things in life are unexpected. Inspired by Errol’s delightful spirit, friends, family, and neighbors rallied to support our family’s significant emotional, physical, and financial needs, through countless acts of selfless generosity. When Errol’s courageous heart finally failed him on December 23, 2009 we were left numb with grief. In these dark hours we listen hopefully for the echoes of Errol’s brilliant laugh. This blog is the story (starting from present and working back to Errol's birth) of the life and times of the amazing Errol Clifford.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

The Happy Gene


Here's a happy picture of Errol. He was dressed as a duck for Halloween (not his choice). You might think that the reason almost all the pictures of Errol are happy is because we just don't take pictures of him when he's sad. The truth is that Errol has what other parents of kids with Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome call "the happy gene", and is almost never unhappy (it did happen once on October 11, 2007). How'd you like to be vacinated against sorrow? Errol seems to have been. Here's the proof.

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