Friends of ours from church got some not so good news last week. Their precious little girl , age 5, wasn't feeling well and they did what all parents do.. they took her to the hospital to be checked out. They got the diagnosis of Leukemia and she is now over at a wonderful hospital in the Boston area and has been told that she has the best type to have with a really great survival rate of almost 90%.
My heart keeps breaking for her and her family. I keep looking at my girls and thinking about how I'd be coping if something ever were to happen to my girls.. I know that I'd be devastated, heartbroken and not doing well. The same feelings I had just about 15-16 months ago when Lee was going through the last weeks of his life. My friends (the mom and dad) seem to be coping well so far. Yet I know that they are probably thinking "Why us?" "why now?". I'm trying my best to be supportive and since their daughters (they have twins also) are friends with my girls, I'm trying my best to discuss this situation with Anna and Lily in terms that they will understand. They know that C is in the hospital and would love to hear from them so this morning we got out some paper and markers and drew some pictures and mailed them off.
Lily was rather cute when I was telling her about C. She realizes that Daddy was in a hospital when he died and recently saw some pictures of me in the hospital when I was giving birth and asked me if I went to the hospital to die like Daddy.. so when we had the discussion about C, I made sure to tell her that C will be coming back to her home and that eventually we will get to play with her again but we will need to be careful with her. She seemed to understand but at the same time was asking why Daddy didn't get to come home too and wanted to go visit C to give her a big hug and get the monsters off her. I told her that we can't visit her right now but maybe once she is home and can have friends over.
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