February 4th.
Today is World cancer Day. In fact, it falls on February 4th
every year. From https://www.worldcancerday.org:
Each year on 4 February, World Cancer Day empowers all of us
across the world to show support, raise our collective voice, take
personal action and press our governments to do more. World Cancer
Day is the only day on the global health calendar where we can all
unite and rally under the one banner of cancer in a positive and
inspiring way.
This
year’s theme is #IAmAndIWill. It’s a theme of empowerment to
reduce the impact of cancer for yourself, loved ones, and the world.
They
have a create feature where you can make a customized poster to
share on social media. https://www.worldcancerday.org/custom-poster
I’ve
seen World cancer Day mentioned quite a bit today, on both Facebook,
and Twitter. That’s good, it seems like the message is getting out.
I
did however, see one post which felt like a punch to the sternum:
SickKids
Hospital tweeted the above message earlier this afternoon. I quickly
noticed the dates mentioned in the tweet, and had a couple of minutes
where I broke down, and almost lost it. E’s diagnosis date was July
22nd, 2017. I felt as though a heavy weight had been dropped on
top of me. It took me until the Interim Maintenance II phase to grasp
the reality, severity, and the seriousness of what had happened to
our family. But today. Today was the first time that I had ever
really thought of my son as a statistic. I’m not angry, or upset, nor do I feel dehumanized or reduced to just a number in any way. I just feel an overarching
sadness that our little E is but one tick of 130 leukemia diagnoses
at SickKids from April 2017 to March 2018. And behind all of those
other numbers are families whose lives have been shattered and
upended by just about the worst thing that can happen to your child.
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