September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and this picture brings back a flood of memories. It was one of the only ones Charlotte let me snap when she lost all of her hair for a second time when her cancer returned. She should have been with her Kindergarten class that day but she was hospitalized for over 2 weeks because she needed high dose chemo once again to knock down what was trying to grow and take her away. It looks like we are having a ball. But my stomach was a ball of knots. She would soon find a hat that helped her find some confidence because she wasn’t 3 anymore and she felt strange without hair. She would also be very very sick for a period of time after this picture as the chemo coarse through her veins, helping to give her a chance to grow up. There was once a time we didn’t have a child with cancer either. Please help us help the children and families who face this. I cringe when someone says the words “rare” in the same sentence of pediatric cancer when I know that 300,000 children a year are diagnosed world wide, 47 a day in just our country, ONE IN 285 children in the U.S are diagnosed by 20. If we look away, these children won’t have the therapy they need to beat the odds they are asked to face. Please go gold and share what you may learn this month. Knowledge brings change. And Charlotte is here right now because of the advancements that came with knowledge and care. Let’s keep it going
I will post more details about our nonprofit Be The Rainbow Foundation’s FIRST FUNDRAISER shortly as we are working so hard to build this foundation up to help as many families as we can. God bless you all for your love and support!
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