I appreciate in spades what being empathized with feels like… and, the outcome of those moments when someone in our life demonstrated that they either understood what I was feeling or was really trying to understand, was a calming sense that I wasn’t alone with my fear and concern. As someone who has received the […]
Whew!!! I am very thankful, after reading Cailyn’s MRI report, to be able to report that her tumour appears stable. I have to admit that my predominant feeling is closer to relief than unbridled joy. I have always said that I would be bounding joyfully if someone told me that this significant threat to my […]
Today is Cailyn’s MRI. Throughout her journey and over the course of almost 60 MRIs, I have never had pre-MRI dreams in which I learn the results. Last night I did. I didn’t like the results and the emotions I felt wakened me. It took me some time to fall back to sleep as my […]
This is my third post in honour of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The month is over but the need for a cure remains. I watched a burial service on Facebook last month for a young person that we know through our journey. Anthony’s tumour, like Cailyn’s, was also diagnosed as a slower-growing tumour (glioma) in […]