Category: Grief & Grieving
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An ugly 6 letter word
Cancer. What an ugly 6 letter word. One our family has been bombarded with for over 8 years now. First with our daughter, diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in 2011, then myself diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and then with thyroid cancer in 2014. Our daughter then relapsed in 2015 and then relapsed again…
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Almost a year….
One year ago tomorrow, our oldest girl Kate received a bone marrow transplant, exactly 7 years after her original diagnosis with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. When we were given the date of the transplant on the anniversary of her original diagnosis we told ourselves that this was a sign that we had come full circle, that…