“I wrote, ‘My mom is dying in hospice care and I feel guilty every day I’m not there sitting by her side.’ I awoke to something so unexpected. ‘Alex! Oh my god, Alex!’”
‘I was 13 hours away with $1.32 in my account. Tears in my eyes, I gently opened the door. There was a look of shock on her face. ‘How did you get here?!’
‘Then I received this email. ‘Hi there, My dad has been fighting cancer. Dad is getting weaker by the day. We have to do this as soon as possible.’
“I couldn’t keep it together to talk on the phone. This is a very difficult and dark time, but I know how you feel about love. We are throwing this plan together really fast. We don’t know how long we have.”
‘She took her last breath. I felt her soul leave her body. She made me promise I would be OK. Armed with a map and her ashes, I set off on a journey of a lifetime.’
“She stared off into the distance, and then turned back to me and smiled. She told me, ‘I want you to go. You need to go. You need to be out there… Nature is your cathedral.’ I will never forget those words.”
‘A little boy should not have to say goodbye to his partner in crime’: Terminally ill girl dies after dad’s desperate plea to save brave 4-year-old
“For those who were wishing to say goodbye, I’m so sorry. This all happened so much faster than we expected.”
‘Cancer cannot cripple love’: With wedding ‘years down the road’ teen tries on wedding dresses for sick mother in hospital to ‘share this moment together’
“Mom and I held each other while tears streamed down our cheeks as we talked about how we could never imagine living without one another. We began talking about things we still wanted to do together.”
Mom with terminal breast cancer afraid to miss the ‘little moments’ with daughter: ‘Light-up shoes, ice skates, bra straps’
“It has been 10 months since a dear doctor friend told me I had stage 4 breast cancer. I sat outside on the phone, begging her to tell me my daughter would remember me.”
Terminally ill bride has ‘dream’ wedding planned in a week thanks to friends and family
“The doors to the chariot opened and out came Jane in her wedding gown adorned with the biggest smile on her face.”
