09/24/2021
Sometimes you come across the perfect post that just needs to be shared. {And we whole heartedly know this goes for the cancer dads out there, too!} This is why Candlelighters serves the whole family 🎗💛
20 Things a Cancer Mom Knows By Heart
By Jessica Bensten, blogger & writer
Once a cancer mom, always a cancer mom. These are 20 things I know by heart:
🎗It is the most unnatural thing in the world to be told your child has cancer.
🎗There’s nothing you can do or say to take it away from them. There’s no fixing it.
🎗Babies can be born with cancer.
🎗Toddlers can lie on the floor and throw a tantrum while having cancer.
🎗Little Leaguers will miss their games because of cancer.
🎗Teenagers can go straight from the hospital to high school graduation, then right back to the hospital.
🎗Children can often handle higher doses of chemo than adults.
🎗Kids can play hide-and-seek, chase each other in toy cars and build an epic Play-Doh creation, all while toting an IV pole with chemo.
🎗Treatment straight up sucks
🎗I can feel a fever without even touching my child.
🎗There’s such a thing as radioactive urine.
🎗Sleeping in a hospital bed with a sick child teaches you interesting life skills, like the ability to wake from a sound sleep, grab a bucket and catch vomit.
🎗Some kids can have the opposite reactions to medications... like for instance, something that makes an adult sleepy might amp a child up. Having a toddler stuck on “fast forward” will make you bone-weary.
🎗The first scar is always the worst. Taking that beautiful, soft baby skin and seeing it cut open is like ripping your heart out.
🎗You realize nothing is as important anymore as getting your child well.
🎗A mother’s love knows no bounds. Not even being puked on, directly in the face.
🎗You’ll never forget the smooth, sticky feeling of a bald head against your cheek.
🎗Every ache and pain, no matter how long your child’s been in remission, will remind you that cancer can come back.
🎗Statistics don’t mean a damn thing when it comes to your child.
🎗Kids never give up. And neither do their parents.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Awaken your awareness.
