"I don't want anything else to happen to you Mom. I want it to happen to me." Oh, how my heart is breaking over conversations like these. How can my child want my pain? There are very few things that I have been grateful for, but one is that it was me. Not my husband …
The island, the airplane and the gun
It seems so easy. BMT means cure! But let's talk about it like this: You are on an island. This is not a completely peaceful island, but it does have it's perks. Warm sunny days, kitty's that lay on your lap, 3 kids that run around joyfully, a husband who loves you dearly. But there's …
21 days (part 1)
The last thing Dr. Yoda said to me as he was going out of the country was, "behave yourself." Seriously, do people not think I like a challenge? I don't like to hear stats anymore, "only 1% of people have this complication or <1% of people will develop this disorder." Had he not read the …
Cancer, have you, I think
There comes a time when you just know that things aren't going smoothly anymore. I had been working with my doctors several weeks to no avail. It was becoming more apparent that the doctors that I had just didn't know what to do. And that's ok. So how do you know when it is time …
