Chesed

Today just sailed. Until it didn’t. Liam and I were in the middle of a game of Scrabble and I was embarrassingly almost one hundred points behind. Suddenly he got…

The words feel so strange. I met David in a parking lot and transferred Harrison to him. Thankfully, David’s office is only a few miles from the hospital. Our oncologist…

August 13. Some days just feel so branded in my head. August 5. Biopsy. August 12. Biopsy results. It feels like another huge day because it is. Liam, Harrison, and…

My friend Jennie reached out to me as soon as she heard about Liam. She was one of my preceptors in the CCU and I loved her so much! She…

My sister, Christy, and her family arrived Sunday afternoon a few hours after Jonathan and Heather left. Steve spent a few hours with us that afternoon and we all went…

They call it denial; but really, it’s more like some type of disassociative horror. I go through my days, desperately reading everything I can get my hands on then turning…

They boys have been dreaming of recording some of their music for months. Liam has written a few songs and they so much wanted to be able to start recording…

Liam had so much more pain on Thursday, the day after his biopsy, than what we were told to expect. His incision was only an inch long, but it was…

August 5. One of those dates likely branded in my brain forever. The day we thought we’d take our family camping beside the river, fish, canoe, cook over a campfire.…

The collision of emotions and events is almost too much to explain. How is it possible to feel thrown into the worst kind of abyss and simultaneously feel so carried…