Touched - Tribute to David Vetter

A small tribute to the remarkable boy David Vetter (1971-1984)

The song is called "Touched" and is by Anno Birkin (anno.co.uk)

Apologies for the terrible quality...apart from those ghastly movies "based" on the life of a boy in a plastic bubble, there wasn't that much footage or photos available, and i had to reshoot stuff off tv when a documentary was on a few years ago.

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[lagirl627]

I am curious how you know all of these "facts"... Are these things that you read or heard in a documentry? I have known about David my entire life and never heard half of these things!

[Ramanujan88]

@lagirl627 sorry i didn't respond. Most of what I learned of David Vetter was from the PBS special: American Experience - The Boy in the Bubble. Google it. find the website. You could order the special (check amazon too). I also read various articles and books (which were rather one-sided or overly sentimental. The PBS special seemed balanced, but I wish I could have heard the parents real feelings on the matter. They just gave info. Maybe they don't want their views public - makes sense.

[MrOliverGWR11]

What a beautiful child. Ican't even begin to imagine what it was like for the entire family to endure something like this. Do you think that maybe they have found a cure for this disease so that there can be more touching between child and parents? I would certainly hope so. My gosh 13 years is so young. My son is 12 going on 13 and my daughter is 9 going on 10. My heart really and truly goes out to the family. Bravo to John Travolta and the rest in filming a wonderful and touching story

[Ramanujan88]

thank you for your lovely comment. bless you and your kids. SCIDS is now very treatable by bone marrow transplant. Gene therapy has also been used, but is controvesial. David had a transplant from his sister, but she had an unseen virus which caused his death in the end. The footage you see above is actual video of David, not from the Travolta film, which was very hollywoodish. But it's also based on another boy's life - Ted DeVita, who lived in a bubble from age 10 till his death.

[PIECE2YOURMOTHA]

Poor kid,

can anybody tell me where i can watch the documentary????

i have been looking for ages, but i have never been able to find it.

[Ramanujan88]

I order the film awhile ago from PBS...maybe it's still there. Check out their website.

[mantarules4]

R.I.P David, you´re wonderful,

very touching and moving, I was crying after seeing the documentary about him.

His mother said: "....and I touched his hand for the first and last time...."!

very very sad

[FutureGirl2033]

Rest in Peace, Sweet David Vetter.

:(

[FutureGirl2033]

@litojonny I HATE THAT MOVIE!!!! >:-[

[ELAW67]

...i was 4 when David was born and i watched the ABC movie based on him in 1976 when i was 9...we didn't know each other but we were kids at the same time in life...when i look at his image, i see me back then and realize how much he must have gone through just being a kid that couldn't do alot of the things the rest of us kids took for granted...i remember wanting to help and wanting to be his friend...it's all we really have to offer each other in life...you left us too David...

[intray6591]

Wow - Young David would have turned 40 this year. That last image of David is haunting. Its captures to perfection feelings he must of had of sheer and utter despair. Its so very hard to fathom the anguish he must of felt once he was old enough to understand the total limitation that was his life.

[litojonny]

i will never watch bubble boy (with jake g.) the same

[peyre1347]

SIGH...Poor little guy. The story of David Vetter just makes me want to cry. Being a father myself, it breaks me up to see what this little boy went through. As always happens after the fact, I just wish I could have done something for him--he was just 3 years younger than me, and I have a couple passing memories of seeing him on the news way back when. Sadly, it wa's probably merciful that he didn't survive in the end, since his personality had grown unstable in the absence of human contact.

[Gresaaa]

Wasn't there a film dedicated to this story?

Bubble boy or something.

r.i.p young david