A cancer diagnosis
comes with a whole lot of uncertainty.
You don't know how you will respond to treatment, you don't know how you
will manage the demands of your day to day life. Understandably, what you end up with is a
great deal of stress. For those with
children, compound that stress exponentially.
You grapple with how
you will tell your child you have cancer.
You want your child to be able to carry on with their own life (school,
activities, social life, homework) without your cancer being a cloud over them while
you go through the process of treatment, and wherever your cancer journey takes
you, but how can you ensure that?
Truthfully, you can't. What you
can do is hope that they have hope, and that hope will carry them through.
What exactly is
hope? Hope is present every day in our
lives whether we are aware of it or not.
We hope we will have a good day at work, or at school. We hope the weather will be good for our
vacation, we hope to have funds for
retirement or hope the new recipe we are trying is a success. Hope is innate in humans but sometimes it
gets shaky. Sometimes you have a run of
bad luck - you get in a fender bender, or get caught by a red light
camera. You break your hip and/or your
phone breaks. You find out someone close
to you is very ill. How can you
find the hope you so desperately need?
Where is it?
We at Cancer
Crossing want to thank our friend Colleen for directing us to this video by 12
year old Capri who was so devastated when she was told her Mother was diagnosed
with breast cancer. She dealt with her emotions through writing this song,
HOPE, which she dedicated to her Mom and
to all the other children out there who have had to watch their mothers go
through such a battle. As Capri says,
'Hope is by our side'. We hope you enjoy
this video of Capri performing her song, HOPE.
Hope is the unfelt
embrace around you, when you think you are all alone.
(Net proceeds from
project Cancer Crossing will go to cancer patient support services in Canada).
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