Remember Alex Marcotte, Capreol Ontario, STSS

09/16/2026

This Saturday, we are gathering to celebrate Alex’s life.

This last week has been harder than I can express, but today brought a moment of profound comfort: we collected our keepsakes from Michelle.

We will each be carrying a personal keepsake with us at all times. Alex will always be with us, and he will live on beautifully in his children.

As we prepare to honor him, I need to share a hard truth. I need you to educate yourselves about streptococcus, because it is far more dangerous than society expects.

We dismiss it as “just strep throat,” but that familiarity is a fatal flaw.

The danger of streptococcus is twofold: it can attack with devastating speed, or it can cause silent, lifelong damage long after the initial infection is gone.

If left unchecked or misdiagnosed, streptococcus can cause:

1. Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome (STSS): A rapid, life-threatening cascade where bacterial toxins hijack the immune system, leading to shock and multi-organ failure in a matter of hours, not days.

2. Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD): An autoimmune response that can develop weeks after a throat infection, causing permanent, lifelong damage to the heart valves.

3. Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN): Severe kidney inflammation that can lead to chronic renal issues or long-term hypertension.

4. PANDAS/PANS: In children, a sudden, severe autoimmune reaction to strep that triggers obsessive-compulsive behaviors, tics, and drastic neurological changes.

5. Reactive Arthritis & Chronic Joint Damage: Persistent, painful inflammation of the joints that can become a lifelong burden.

6. Invasive Tissue Destruction: Including necrotizing fasciitis, which, even if survived, often results in amputations, severe scarring, and chronic pain.

The medical system often defaults to a “wait and see” approach because early symptoms mimic common viruses. But with strep, waiting is exactly what the bacteria exploit.

Please, do not let the familiarity of a “strep” diagnosis blind you. Advocate fiercely for yourself and your children.

Ask the hard questions.

We are keeping Alex’s memory alive, and part of that is using this painful knowledge to protect others.

08/26/2026

💙 A Note from Susara: Legacy, Love, and Moving Forward Together 💙

With gratitude, love, and a heart learning to beat again.

🕊️ First, A Thank You That Runs Deep
I haven’t written in a while. Even when I shared the obituary, I only added a small note, but I need to say this properly:

Michelle, your words were the most beautiful obituary I have ever read. 💙

Your love for my son is unimaginable. I am so deeply sorry for your loss, and for the loss Briar and Bodhi are still feeling. I see it every day when we’re together. I feel it in their hugs, their questions, their quiet moments.

And yet… spending time with them has brought a little bit of Alex back to me. 🌤️ It helps soften the regret for all the time I missed. It helps me carry on. It’s taken me a while to find my footing again, but I’m getting there. I have work to do, and I’m ready to do it now.

🌸 About Flowers, Purpose, and Alex’s Legacy

Many of you have asked about sending flowers for the Celebration of Life. Flowers are a beautiful thought. I’ve always told my husband: “If you want to send me flowers, find a beautiful patch, take me for a walk, and show them to me. They don’t need to be plucked.” 🌷🚶‍♀️

They have purpose, and they should fulfill their purpose, just like we all do.

Alex had a purpose. One of them was to help us all grow. They say only the good die young, and Alex was amazing.

✨So instead of flowers, we kindly ask that you consider a small donation to Briar and Bodhi’s Education Fund, set up by Michelle to honor their dad and secure their future. 🎓💙
How to contribute:
🔹 GoFundMe (Updated Focus): https://gofund.me/3c148c8b6
🔹 e-Transfer: [email protected]
📝 Please note: “Education Fund” or “Strep Awareness”

🔄 Important Update:

We have redirected the GoFundMe campaign to focus on two meaningful causes:

1️⃣ Briar and Bodhi’s Education Fund – Ensuring Alex’s children have every opportunity to thrive.

2️⃣ Strep Awareness & Prevention Advocacy – Educating communities about the signs of strep infections and the serious complications they can cause, so other families might be spared this pain.

📖 Help Us Build Alex’s Legacy: Share Your Stories
I absolutely love hearing stories about Alex, and I think this page can become a living legacy for Briar and Bodhi.

📚💙If you have a memory, a photo, a video, or even a short note about Alex, please share it here in the comments or send it to:

📩 [email protected]

Subject line: “For Briar & Bodhi”

Thanks to the miracle of technology (and yes, even Facebook, despite its flaws 🙃), these stories can live on, as long as the internet exists.

When Briar and Bodhi are older, they can read about their dad through us. Through your words. Your love. Your truth.

That is a gift beyond measure. 🎁

🗓️ Celebration of Life: September 19 in Sudbury

For those who asked: Alex’s Celebration of Life will be held on September 19 in Sudbury, Ontario. All who loved him are welcome. 🕯️🤍

🙏 To Everyone Who Has Walked This Road With Us

Thank you.
For your love.
For your prayers.
For standing with us, even those who joined after Alex’s passing.
Your presence still matters.
Your support still heals. 💙

Alex’s purpose wasn’t just to live,it was to teach us how to love fiercely, forgive freely, and hold each other tightly.

In that, he succeeded.
And in that, he lives on.

✨ How to Honor Alex Today
• Share a memory of him below 💬
• Donate to the Education Fund or Strep Awareness advocacy 🎓🦠
• Teach someone about the signs of strep infections 🩺
• Hold your loved ones a little tighter tonight 🤗
• Let yourself feel whatever you’re feeling, grief has no timeline

🌤️ A Final Whisper

Alex was
Our son.
Arock star.
A fighter.
A lover.
A father.
A friend.
He mattered.
He matters.
He will always matter.

Thank you for helping us turn love into legacy.

With endless gratitude,

Susara 💙
(On behalf of Alex)


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P.S. If today feels heavy, please be gentle with yourself. Reach out. Cry. Rest. You don’t have to carry it alone. We’re here. 💙

P.P.S. If you’re able to share this post, please do. You never know whose heart might need Alex’s story today. 🌟

The Alex Marcotte Legacy Fund: Education & Strep A Awareness … Susara Marcotte needs your support for Alex’s Angels: Supporting His Kids & Stopping Strep A

08/14/2026

Edit: There’s still 3 days Sunnybrook Hospital parking left on the card. If you send me a DM I can mail it to you. 😊
Original:
I have this parking card for Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto. Not sure but I think it still has time on it. If you’re going there and want to try I’d gladly give it to you.
Must be able to pick up near Sudbury.

08/12/2026

In memory of Alex Marcotte …

Thank you for writing this beautiful testament to Alex, Michelle. Your words warms my soul.

08/04/2026

Thank You, From the Bottom of Our Hearts 💙
With gratitude, love, and heavy but hopeful hearts.

🕊️ A Note on Time and Grief

I had to look at the calendar and my Facebook just to tell you exactly when he passed. 📅💔

I haven’t been able to concentrate on much. Time has gone nowhere since Kim told me the news. It was such a shock. My mind keeps replaying the last night I saw him… I told Alex, “I’m taking Briar home, but I’ll see you tomorrow.” 🗣️

I didn’t know “tomorrow” wouldn’t come. I didn’t know that was the last time I’d hear his breathing, see his eyes, hold his hand. That “see you tomorrow” lives in my heart now.

And in the fog of grief, days blur into nights, and the only thing that feels real is the love we shared. ⏳🕯️

🙏 To Everyone Who Held Us Up

We need to say this out loud:

Thank you.
For every prayer, every message, every shared post, every quiet “I’m thinking of you” sent our way. For the positive energy that carried us through the darkest hours. ✨

Without your comments, acknowledging what an incredible boy Alex was, we might not have seen it as clearly: that he came to us with a purpose, and he was taken from us with a purpose. 💙

He wasn’t just our Alex.
He was a friend,
A helper,
A laugh in a quiet room, a hand extended when someone stumbled. He lived a short but crazy, upside-down, yet ultimately happy life, and he left fingerprints of kindness on so many hearts. 🌟

🕊️ Alex’s Journey Home

Alex moved on peacefully on July 20, 2026. 🕊️

Michelle, Briar, Bodhi, and the rest of us will hold him with us forever. In our stories. In our laughter. In the way we love a little fiercer because he taught us how.

And we know: the people he helped, the friends he lifted, the strangers he smiled at, they hold him too. His light doesn’t fade. It spreads. 🌤️

🤲 A Gentle, Practical Request

As we prepare to lay Alex to rest with the dignity and love he deserves, we face the reality of future costs, like Briar and Bodhi’s education.

If you feel moved to help:
🔹 GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/68bffaa4c
🔹 e-transferring to [email protected]

🔹 Note: “Future support”

Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us honor Alex properly. And if you cannot give financially, please know: your prayers, your memories, your continued love are gifts enough. 💙

✨ How to Honor Alex Today

• Share a memory of him in the comments below 💬
• Do one small act of kindness in his name 🤲
• Hold your loved ones a little tighter tonight 🤗
• Let yourself feel whatever you’re feeling, grief has no timeline

🕯️ A Final Word

Alex was a rock star. A fighter. A lover. A father. A husband. A friend.
He mattered.
He matters.
He will always matter.
Thank you for walking this road with us. For seeing him. For loving us.

We’ll keep telling his story. And we’ll keep feeling your love.
With endless gratitude,
Michelle, Briar, Bodhi, Susara, Kim, and the whole Alex family 💙


P.S. If grief feels heavy today, please be gentle with yourself. Reach out. Cry. Rest. You don’t have to carry it alone. We’re here.

Thanks for the image Cj Leclair💙

07/30/2026

Strep can take those you love! Treat strep as severely as we treated COVID!

07/25/2026

Working on Bodhi ‘s play structure, and cleaning out the garden, helps me feel like Alex is still with us…