Charlotte's Journey

I would of walked on by without a second glance, but Charlotte stopped me and wanted to read this almost hidden poster below at Duke Children’s Hospital today when we went in to have her damaged hearing aids replaced. She has cried a river over getting hearing aids again after an entire summer of not having them. She is afraid she will be different from her classmates and that people will make fun of her. She told me yesterday “Why did I have to have cancer! I hate it! It’s going to ruin my life.” And for a while she resisted me holding and consoling her…a piece of my heart breaking with every hurt sob. On a scale of mild to moderate to severe to profound, Charlotte’s hearing loss is severe. Brian and I have walked her through the power of these aids helping her especially in school but of course she is 8 and doesn’t want to stand out. Brian and I know hearing loss is a small price to pay for what she needed to go through to even be here, but our momma and daddy hearts break watching h

Brian and I have sat beside Charlotte’s hospital bed more times then we could ever count. Many of the times we were either afraid, exhausted, devastated, anxious, alone. So when it was 100 degrees in the North Carolina heat yesterday, and we got to sit here at a local event helping to share our new nonprofit Be The Rainbow Foundation’s mission and promote our FIRST fundraiser, and just be with neighbors and friends and our towns folk…well I think of all the times we prayed God had a bigger plan in the making then we could of ever imagined. And this is all part of it. Hoping to help shoulder some burdens, keep families together, and bring them HOPE through Charlotte is what we are all about. And we see and feel you all right here helping us do just that. We are so excited to announce the HAIR DARR CHALLENGE FUNDRAISER to benefit Be The Rainbow Foundation’s work! Please click on the link for all the info and please help us by joining in and/or sharing! Thanks everyone! https://betherainb