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How it started? Out of necessity. When Finn was diagnosed, our family was your typical dual income household with 2 children in elementary school balancing jobs, homework and weekend play dates. Finn’s treatment required hospital stays every other week, often with fever induced hospital stays in between. In order to have a parent with him …
Birthdays, Bereavement and Blessings
I sit here at 11:24 pm on the eve of what would be Finn’s 7th Birthday and can’t help but think of this same time seven years ago. Finn was a scheduled c-section, a very different birth experience than the emergency that was our older son Declan. We had a calm evening, woke up early, …
Relapse
The alarm went off at 5:30, although I don’t know why I even set it; I was up hours earlier staring at the dark ceiling with Finn snuggled against me. Today is the day, the beginning of round two of Finns fight against Ewing sarcoma, a rare soft tissue or bone cancer. Our relapse technically …
The Bell: To Ring or Not to Ring?
Trigger Warning, because that is what you are supposed to do is warn people when you are about to talk about something that could “trigger” an emotional response, right? But how could you not get emotional talking about pediatric cancer and the atrocities children face fighting the number one killer by disease for children? I …
