My name is Trinity, and my husband and I have 5 children. Our oldest son, Peter, is very sick. He is medically complex with several chronic conditions and considered terminal. The last two years, he’s done nothing but fight every day for his life, to keep going, to keep living. In 2022, we were referred to Make-A-Wish, and in 2023, we got to take Peter and our beautiful family on a magical trip to Florida, so Peter could meet Mickey Mouse and Anna and Elsa.

Getting to have him experience his wish was the best thing ever. Give Kids The World was the most magical place on earth. GKTW is only for wish kids, and when you stay there, you make a beautiful star that gets put into the Castle of Dreams, and it stays there forever. There are over 100,000 wish kids' stars at GKTW, I believe.

This is where my fundraising comes in. Getting to go to Florida once was truly once in a lifetime for our family, something we never could have done without Make-A-Wish.

But Peter keeps getting sicker. His body is just so tired. My husband and I are just so dang scared, all the dang time. Peter sees so many specialists, and we try so many different things to get him the help that he needs. He keeps declining, no matter what we do.

Now we are scared. Our memory-making time is becoming very limited.

More than anything, we wish and pray we had the means and opportunity to take him back to Florida so that he can see his star at Give Kids The World one more time before he passes away.

I know that everyone likes to tell me to hold on to hope, that I don’t know what the future might bring and that I don’t know how things might change. But they don’t live this life.

Everyone likes to tell me that I shouldn’t think so negatively because Peter might live.

But I don’t know what child they are talking about, what family life they are looking at, or whose world they are seeing a peek of. But it’s not ours. Because I’m sorry, but there isn’t a lot of hope.

Peter is SICK. He IS going to succumb to his illnesses one day much sooner than he should because every single doctor he has, has told me this.

My baby boy is living life on limited time.

And we are doing our best to make memories with limited means.

More than anything, we just want to be able to do this one thing with him before it’s too late, before his illness takes a turn he can’t come back from.

Peter's daddy, siblings, and I will have the rest of our lives to go back to Florida and visit Peter's star.

I know that.

But Peter won’t.

*This is Peter’s Facebook page. I regularly share here. https://www.facebook.com/share/16yFKazaE3/?mibextid=wwXIfr