Leland Shumake was stricken with a rare amoeba after playing outside.
A couple whose six-year-old son died suddenly after contracting an infection found an incredibly moving note from him after he passed away.
When Shumake and her husband Tim went home to pick up clothes for Leland's burial, they found a note on the table her child had written. It said, "Still with you, thank you mom and dad... [it's a] good day."
![When Shumake and her husband Tim went home to pick up clothes for Leland's burial, they found a note on the table her child had written. It said, "Still with you, thank you mom and dad... [it's a] good day."](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sU5E9QlSBbCt1ZxXYENF0V2BwZIayqYF4wlY1akLJMLNiKiHvhi43EwPvRkdBYJYfxBIx85MdE=s0-d)
Shumake said she is not sure where the note came from.
"We have no idea when he wrote it but you can tell he was always a special child. We will love you forever Leland," she wrote on Facebook.
Amber Shumake of Williamson, Georgia, told BuzzFeed News that her son Leland was an intelligent and amazing little boy. "He was the light of our life and the center of this family," she wrote on Facebook.
His parents took him to a children's hospital in Atlanta, and he was hospitalized. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong, so put him on multiple medications.
"I sat by his bedside every day and every night trying to figure it out myself," his mom said.
Eventually, doctors told the family their son had meningitis.
"He then got way worse. Stopped communicating as much, said his vision was completely gone, had to have a drain put in one side of his head to relieve the pressure and the fluid," Shumake said.
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