“He said, ‘Something is wrong with Wyatt.’ I open the shower curtain and see him holding my son out. I thought his neck was broken.”
‘I was punched in the face by a man who claimed to ‘love me so much.’ Then he said, ‘Now I’m going to call my mom to let her finish the job.’’
‘I watched her die against her will. She was not ready to go, she wanted to live! As she took her last breath she grabbed my arm hard and whispered..’NO, Dad!’ and died.
“But what does a stairwell have to do with anything?”
‘But he was fine just last week.’ I know the look on a mother’s face the moment she is told her child has cancer after a ‘routine’ ER visit for a sore throat.
“Is he going to die? How is this happening? I can’t believe this is happening. This. Isn’t. Happening.”
‘Hey Dad, I haven’t been feeling too well. Could you take me to the doctor? I think I might have a sinus infection.’
“‘Sure baby, I’ll pick you up after school.’ My daughter’s sinus infection was anything but.”
‘I got a message about a 19-year-old bride who has cancer. She was told she wouldn’t make it through the night. They had to move her wedding to that very day.’
“Little did I know this one day, this one wedding, and this one bride, would change my life forever.”
‘After they left, my husband broke down. I finally realized how seriously they were questioning my husband, and how serious this whole matter was.’
“Now we had to worry about getting our son the help he needed, and protect ourselves from something we never did.”
‘Two days before my dad committed suicide, he called. ‘Shut up’ spewed from my mouth. I never spoke to him that way. Those were the last words I ever said to him.’
“I was so angry and upset for so long at the fact he chose drugs, and willingly chose to take his own life and leave me. I now understand though. I’ve now felt that pain.”
‘On Monday my son should have started kindergarten, but he never will. As back to school happens, consider those around you.’
“He will never bring home homework. He will never miss the bus. He will never forget his lunch money. We will never meet his teacher. We miss them all. Our son never finished PreK.”
‘To the girl who changed my world in 4 minutes and 51 seconds.’
“You had already decided this would be your final surgery. You had courageously fought cancer once, and came out victorious on the other side, only to have the cancer return with a vengeance.”
‘We found a mass on his brain. I am so sorry’: How in the hell does a 2-year-old get cancer? Nothing in life prepares you for this.
“It was supposed to be a chill day. I was so oblivious to the fact this could end up bad. I wasn’t prepared for what she said next.”
