Wendy Eastman-Teal started blogging about her son Nolan on Facebook after his death. Those words turned into action.
HOCKESSIN, Delaware -- A Delaware mom is pushing for more mental health resources for teenagers following the suicide death of her son, a popular varsity football player who passed away earlier this year.
This week should have been the start of senior year summer for her son, 18-year-old Nolan Whitman. He should have been walking across the graduation stage and signing his friends' yearbooks. Instead, his friends signed a poster at his funeral."The hits just keep coming," she said, reading another one of her posts."He was 5' 2", but his personality-- it was 10 feet tall," said Eastburn-Teal."As of January 3rd, I was never going to be the Wendy I was.
"We need to start hearing and seeing our kids and so that's what I started speaking out about," she said.