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OndinitaAKALibchit
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 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:31 am Post subject: A Son's Premonition, And A Final Baseball Game |
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I find it fascinating when people sort of know that their time is coming...It's one of those unexplainable things that leads me to believe that there is more to life than we know...
| Quote: | Dr. Gregg and Kathryn Korbon's son Brian was almost 9 years old when he told his parents he wouldn't make it to his "double digits."
"That's when I got worried," said Kathryn, who took her son to see a therapist. Kathryn and Gregg recounted Brian's strange premonition at StoryCorps in Charlottesville, Va.
Brian hadn't wanted a birthday party when he turned 9; but in the next several months, he decided he wanted a party after all.
Then one day, Kathryn came home to find Brian pulling a red wagon down the driveway, filled with his toys and camping gear.
"I'm ready to go on my trip," the boy said.
Kathryn replied, "Brian, I'll be so sad if you leave."
"Mom, I have to go."
His mother explained that Brian couldn't leave because of his upcoming party; he relented.
But before the celebration — planned for May 8, 1993 — Brian wrote letters to some of his friends, and put a sign on his door that read, "Brian's on a trip. Don't worry about me."
Brian played in a Little League game after the party. Though he was the smallest player on the team and normally was afraid of the ball, his father recalls that during that game, Brian was fearless.
He was walked in his first at-bat. The next batter hit a triple — Brian ran the bases, charging across home plate.
"He was the happiest little boy you ever saw. He gave me a high-five and went into the dugout," Gregg recalls, "and then he collapsed."
When his coach brought Brian out of the dugout, Gregg tried to revive him. "I'm an anesthesiologist. That's what I do, is resuscitate people," he said.
"And something inside told me he wasn't coming back."
Soon after leaving the hospital, Kathryn realized her son had somehow known what would happen to him.
"That's what he was trying to tell us all that time," she said.
"Yeah, but it wasn't in my belief system that something like that could happen," Gregg replied.
Gregg returned to the field after Brian's death, to get his car. On a beautiful spring day, he watched another game of Little Leaguers.
"All of a sudden, everything got very clear," Gregg recalls. "And I had this sense that if I could bring Brian back, it would be for me, not for him — that he had finished. Any unfinished business was just mine."
After Brian's death, the ballpark where he had played that day was renovated and renamed the Brian C. Korbon Field.
A plaque was placed at the site:
On May 8, 1993, Brian Korbon died suddenly in the south dugout after scoring the first run of his Little League career. This ball field is dedicated to his wisdom, faith and courage. May those who play here share Brian's sense of fair play and joy of life, and those who cheer them find a greater sense of community and love for their children. |
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Thanks for that heart-wrenching tale...and if there are spelling errors here, please forgive me - it's hard to see through thetears...
Losing a child must certainly be a living death--so frightening that I won't try to imagine it, not even as a philosophical exercise....
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There is nothing more beautiful, more transcendent, more anti-scientific than the bond between parent and child...I won't hear from my mom for 3 or 4 months, then I'll have a horrible day, and the phone will ring....Yep, it's her, just checking in...
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But in response to your post, I do remember reading of a study that was done recently, that showed that as death is approaching, the body is flooded with a cocktail of endorphins and adrenaline that produced a painless state of calm but strong euphoria...
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OndinitaAKALibchit
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There is nothing more beautiful, more transcendent, more anti-scientific than the bond between parent and child...I won't hear from my mom for 3 or 4 months, then I'll have a horrible day, and the phone will ring....Yep, it's her, just checking in...
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I totally agree...I don't have any children yet, but I can only imagine how incredibly painful losing a child must be. My maternal grandmother passed away 4 months after my mom did...She just couldn't handle my mom passing away...
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