As I continually repeat my thoughts on hindsight, I think of myself as quite the idiot. I should’ve listened to my gut or ‘sixth’ sense and acknowledged what it was telling me outright. It's not as if the clues and hints I’d picked up along the way told me otherwise. My kid had a biopsy, … Continue reading Finally Confirmed: Caelan, Age 6, Cancer
Time, a feral beast. Sometimes it flies too fast and sometimes it moves undetected at a sluggishly, sloth like pace. Can’t have it both ways but there are times that I wish I could control it. Would that be curse? Perhaps. I'll never know the implications of taming one so wild. What I do know, … Continue reading A 6 Year Old Child, A Biopsy & the Trauma of Medical Tape…Yes, Tape
It's only one of my crusty old steak knives! I don't own a scalpel, so my apologies! Cute bear though, I think I'll call him Hack Job Harry with that outfit! I know, I know, not a favorite topic to read about, but this moment in time changed everything for me. I can only hope … Continue reading Our Days Leading Up to the Big ‘B’…Biopsy
I know that I’ve made promises to write about the different things that I’ve encountered and I haven’t gone back and done that...yet. Today, I'm going make good on my promises, and begin by going back. I'm going to start with my daughter Caelan, followed by my sister, Lea. I've been trying to mix things … Continue reading I Never Thought I’d See the Day That My Daughter Would Become a Cancer Statistic
As Clem pointed out last night while we were on our walk, it's an anniversary of sorts for our little family today, and I’d nearly forgotten. After being holed up for so long, the flipping of our calendar has been sorely neglected…where has time gone? A few years ago, our brave, young, little girl named … Continue reading Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
We have been busy preparing to celebrate another birthday in our crazy little family soon! Our not so little Caelan will be another year older, and we are very thankful to be celebrating with her. We cherish every single birthday around here because you just don’t know how many you’re going to get. So, light … Continue reading Birthday Wishes and Butterfly Kisses
