June 1, 2019
A woman assisting me on the phone told me today that she had heard I have a child fighting cancer and that she could “never do that!”
She informed me that she gets emotional just thinking about one of her children fighting cancer.
Yet, her husband, nearly 50 years old now, still visits Primary Children’s Hospital for heart surgeries. (He was 17 when he had an experimental and life saving heart surgery.) Currently, he is the oldest man alive with his heart condition.
Clearly, he is living on borrowed time. This would be hard for me.
In a way, we share similar challenges, as each of us lives “one day at a time—loving, forgiving, cherishing special time one with another,” knowing that none of us will make it out of this earthly experience alive.
I appreciate the advice of this South African Cancer Cutie’s Momma’s Article.
(We went over a year without a Cancer Team I could trust).
Personally, I find great peace in reading and learning about my daughter’s brain cancer—(thank you, Google Scholar) because to live in fear and at the ever changing whim and differing doctor’s opinions for my child was difficult for me.
Do what is best for your child, your family.
How do you do it when you are faced with a challenge you never saw coming and never in your wildest nightmares anticipated—pediatric cancer? You are a parent, even more powerfully, a mother. You cry a little (and maybe a lot in the shower) and you stand up and go to work for your child and your family.
You can do this! 💕
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