BOOMER SON OF ENGLAND DIES 13 YEARS AFTER STABBING

Alex Lloyd stood ready to find his place in the world. After being stabbed seven times his family took their place as caregivers for thirteen years.

Boomer son Alexander Lloyd, dead at age 36, thirteen years after a stabbing left him in the sort of condition that calls for medical miracles.

Family care helped him for from age twenty three, then an infection set in that couldn’t be stopped.

Alex is the son of my wife’s cousin. My boys met their English family on a 2004 trip.

They met Alex a year after the stabbing.

This is what parents of a stabbing victim sound like:

Speaking to the Cambridge News about his son’s ordeal, Chris Lloyd, 68, said his son died on Tuesday March 21 and that his funeral was due to take place next week.

Mr Lloyd described the round-the-clock care he and his wife Janet and younger brother Oliver had given Alexander at their home since the attack.

He said: “He was quadriplegic and had terrible brain damage. In the attack he was stabbed seven times, including once through the heart, and was bleeding to death when he was taken to hospital. They put him on life support for two months.

“I personally have spent 100,000 hours looking after Alexander, and we have spent a huge amount of money on adaptations to our home to make him as comfortable as possible. The cost to the NHS has also been huge, running into millions.

“Alexander had no swallowing reflex, so feeding him was difficult, and he could easily asphyxiate. In the past few months, he had to have CPR three times.

“He’d been studying for a qualification in estate management, at the University of Greenwich, and he didn’t realised at the time of the attack that he’d actually got his degree.”

Mr Lloyd had to leave his job as a surveyor so he could devote his time to helping to care for Alexander.

He said: “We always knew it would be a battle to look after him and keep him alive, and a member of the family literally had to be with him 24 hours a day, every day, in case anything happened.

“It’s very difficult for me to say more about it.”

The Lloyds and their extended family lived the words said thirteen years earlier:

Speaking outside the court at the time, Mr Lloyd told the News: “The sentence doesn’t take into account that my son is basically the living dead. I have lost my son whom I love.”

Alex’s Grandma Betty, Aunt Diana, and boomer sons from America.

Some people you want your kids to meet? Alex was one of them.

Instead of the live wire boomer son personality that lived in him, my boys saw the aftermath of knife violence.

It makes everyone need what they don’t have. A friend, a son, a cousin, a brother, a nephew.

Alex’s Uncle Andrew on the left, Cousin Paul on the right.

Ask a family how an act of violence reverberates over time.

Alex’s cousins Elaine and Nicholas.

From one generation onward the story of loss never ends. The boomer son, a millennial, is another young man struck down.

Instead of moving on with their lives, Alex’s family moved on with him.

His life didn’t diminish them, but their’s grew room for him.

Thirteen years later their boomer son room is empty but for the memories.

From Mrs. Lloyd:

“Alexander was a lively, outgoing boy who loved his friends and his family. Our lives have changed forever. Alex has severe brain damage and will have to be looked after for the rest of his life. He should be starting out on a career as a surveyor.

“He was noisy and very, very untidy but we would give anything to have him back just the way he was.”