Sad News: A 6-year-old boy dies and leaves a blue stain on the carpet: 12 years later, mom makes a heartbreaking discovery…

Heather shared an experience she had on Facebook in a post titled The Blue Stain.

Describing herself online as a wife and mum of five kids “four on earth and one in heaven”, her post The Blue Stain has resonated with other parents.

She describes how seeing an ink stain on her carpet was a constant reminder of the son she lost to cancer, Jacob, one of her triplets.She begins by recalling how she was clearing up “slime” left by one of her other children, and she was beginning to feel irritated.

She wrote: “All of a sudden I remembered another time in my life when I was cleaning up a big mess many years ago and the memories came flooding back.

“I was completely exhausted and was a hot mess by this time of night.

“Life was non-stop with our 2-year old triplets and their 4-year old brother.