I haven’t updated for a long time because I have struggled with what to write. I can’t seem to find words powerful enough to express sufficiently how deeply this journey has pushed me. When Cailyn was first diagnosed, I was told that I needed to accept that she had a chronic, life-threatening illness. Frankly, I […]
This is the seventh update I have started and I am very hopeful that I don’t get a writer’s block with this one! I have mentioned it in other entries, and it is just as true now, I am struggling these last many months to find the words that do justice to my feelings regarding […]
Happy New Year! I hope 2018 has gotten off to a great start for you. New Year’s Eve found us celebrating with friends and family in Toronto. We had special time with my brother’s family in Toronto, and we loved reconnecting with our dear friends at their New Year’s Eve party. We all commented on […]
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 […]
Hard to believe we are more than a month into the school year, and school-work and activities are moving full-steam ahead. For what am I most thankful??? That’s an easy answer… time with people I love… and that’s what Thanksgiving is all about for me. It doesn’t matter where we are, what we eat, or what […]
In Honour of both my daughter and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month… Today is my daughter’s birthday… 16 years ago, she was delivered a little over three weeks early by C-section. I had placenta previa and it was unsafe for both of us for me to go into labour. As it turned out, the six weeks […]
September is the month dedicated to Childhood Cancer Awareness. If you want the quantifiable statistics associated with childhood cancer, you can find stats on many different websites pertaining to incidence and mortality. I shared some of them in my post last year Childhood Cancer Awareness. In Canada, it is the second leading cause of death […]