Here we are on June
6th, 2021. Exactly 8 months off of treatment for E, and
co-incidentally cancer Survivors Day. We reached E’s end of
treatment day on October 6th, 2020, any this space kind of
got dropped. I’ve been meaning/wanting to write an update now that
treatment is done, but I was unable to bring myself to do so. But,
more about EOT for another day.
As a parent, you end
up speaking sentences you never thought you would say in your life,
such as “please don’t lick your mother’s shoe”. And yes, that
was something I said to one of the boys a couple of years ago. Many
of these sentences are comical (after the fact), and I’ll sometimes
wonder if any other human being has ever uttered the same phrase, if
there a particularly strange one that needs to be said.
Today is cancer
Survivors Day, and my 5 year old son is under that umbrella. I wished
him a Happy cancer Survivors Day, and while he doesn’t know what it
means, I thought it was important to say it to him anyway, to
recognize everything he’s endured. Wishing a Happy cancer Survivors
Day to my 5 year old son is something I NEVER EVER
would have even fathomed before kids. It’s always something that
happens to someone else’s kid.....until it happens to YOUR
kid. It’s heartbreaking, and at the very least, it’s both
physically and emotionally draining to endure what our family has
gone through for the past 3.5 years, and we’re one of the lucky
ones.
So,
Happy cancer Survivors Day to anyone out there who has been stricken
by this awful disease. I hope it’s not something you’ll ever have
to say to a loved one, even more so if that loved on is your child.
