Nov 27th 2001 at 09:45:18 AM Joyce Damozonio from San Jose, California jdamozon@pacbell.net "I met Stephen Belton not quite a year ago at his practice. I am currently 4 1/2 months pregnant. My husband and I have just recently lost our 2 year, 2 month old daughter Mia Damozonio, to a cancerous brain tumor called an brainstem ependenoma. The sad thing is it happened so fast that we were told by the Social Worker at the Stanford hospital that it would seem more like a car accident then a fight with a cancerous brain tumor. She had flu like symptoms and went into seizure and we ended up at the ER. They had to fly her to Lucile Packard Children's hospital for brain surgery. She never made it out of the coma from surgery and hydrocephalus. Do you know how Dr. Belton treated my husband and I at our next appt? Like a father. Caring, understanding, and completely compassionate to the heartache and pain we were feeling from losing our only child. I praise God for the child in my womb. I thank the Lord that he gave us a caring and understanding Dr. to deliver our new child. At first I left the office thinking how strange, but now I know better. I know the hand of God has moved him. I miss Missy too, even though I never met her, from the beautiful website that everyone that knew Missy has put together. I am so grateful to know that she loved children because Mia will love her. I am so glad to know that Mia will be greated by Missy. My dream for Mia was that maybe someday we could learn the piano together. I was deeply saddened that Mia never got to play the piano. A week after she died I had a dream where Mia visited me. She told me "That's ok Mama! I already know how to play the piano." Missy, If that was you who taught her how to play the piano, I thank you and praise God for you and your parents. Thank you Stephen Belton. " |