Emilie Kiser

to honor Trigg and to show my love for him is take care of Teddy and hopefully help to spread awareness and do my best to make it so that hopefully less families have to go through what we've gone through.

I would love to say that I can do my best to make sure this never happens again, but drowning is the leading cause of death in children three and under.

I feel like there's groups of people who hear about it often, but it's not talked about enough.

And I really want to make an effort, especially going into this year and especially being where I am in my grief journey of I feel a little more ready.

I think I've finally accepted that this is what took his life.

I really just want people to know that this is preventable and it doesn't have to happen to you.

And I mean, that goes for so many preventable accidents.

That's what I really think matters that people need to know.

There's nothing I can say that's going to change people's minds.

And I'm not here to do that.

I don't think I'll ever...

fully accept what happened to him.

Because although it was preventable, it just feels so cruel.

And especially that night and the way things happened, it really felt just like a series of

of, you know, you play it back and you're like, how did I go wrong there?

And why did I leave?

And why did this happen?

Why did that happen?

It's hindsight.

You go back and you replay and think, what could I do differently?