Thanks to childhood cancer we've learned some things. Here's the first list:
Lessons learned when your kids has cancer and here are a few more things:
- When the kid hears "cell" they will ask if you are talking about red blood cells, not a cellular phone
- Said kid's "big white night night" weighs 0.3 kilograms
- The pulse-oximeter reads best on his thumb, rather than his index finger
- Aside from keeping the head warm, a full head of hair serves another purpose - covering the bruises of a rambunctious 3-year-old who is prone to banging his head during tantrums, scratching his scalp, and running into the corner of the kitchen counter (twice in the last week)
- A cancer clinic can feel like a pleasant, safe place
- Being on chemo does NOT mean you will vomit, suffer constant weakness and fatigue, and/or act sickly all the time. You may be lucky enough to run, play, sing, and laugh A LOT. In this instance he needs many buildings built so they can be destroyed by an earthquake.
1 comment:
awesome work! and very true, a lot of people thing chemo goes hand in hand with the stuff they see on the movies, and that may have been the case years and years ago, but today they have made strides to make kids more comfortable. Glad to see he's happy, love it when they're happy!
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