Charlotte's Journey

About a month before Charlotte got sick, Brian and I were at a special benefit for The Methodist Home for Children with some friends and we won a silent auction bid for a week at Grow, a local Preschool that was having a week of summer camp for preschoolers. When the time came, Charlotte couldn’t go. She was in active treatment, fighting cancer, and so we gifted it to a neighbor to go instead. This winter, we went to the same benefit and won the same silent auction item: a week of Preschool summer camp at Grow in our town of Apex NC. The owner and director of Grow, Julia, was sitting at our table and we all just beamed thinking of what it meant for Charlotte to get to do this. It’s kind of a “pinch me yes this is really happening” moment. Although she’s been battling what seems like back to back colds and even came down with an ear infection that has seemed to really hinder her hearing recently, she is soaring. She is living up this time and creating such a positive impact in the wor

Sometimes the momentum of life makes us go full steam ahead. And sometimes that’s a very good thing. While perhaps at other times, it’s time to hold the horses. Put on the brakes. Let things “marinate”. Pause to re-evaluate. And that’s exactly what we’ve decided to do for Charlotte and her potential need for hearing aides. Something didn’t set quite right after our Audiology appointment at Duke last month. We felt like we were being “sold” to. A full page of hearing aid colors complete with sparkles or funky swirly colors were presented to us even before the actual technology or exact support Charlotte would benefit from was discussed. The entire appointment was off putting. So we felt like we were being sold a car, but we also felt something else we couldn’t quite put our finger on. We pushed that feeling aside to revisit and went about our way with beach vacation plans (which I still need to post about!!) and summer fun and then WHAM all of a sudden it was time for her follow up