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Cancer Strikes Again!

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I should have shared this page before.  I really should have, but I’m doing it now, even though it’s just a few hours too late.  Prayers for Lane Goodwin is the Facebook page of a mother to a 13 year old little boy who earned his angel wings tonight.

He fought this cancer HARD.  This was the third time cancer knocked him down.  Two times before he knocked cancer on it’s ass, this time, he was tired, and it was his time to go.  I can’t even imagine the pain his family is going through right now.  To have your baby ripped from you in instants.  To watch your child go through pain you can’t even imagine.

I don’t know how these parents do it.  No. Freaking. Clue.  You would have to lock me up and throw away the key if just one of my kids passed away before their time.  Parents aren’t supposed to bury their children, it should be the other way around.  My kids drive me crazy, and sometimes I YEARN for a break, consider paying a neighbor to watch them for 15 minutes……..but this?  I don’t think I could live without my kids.  Well, that’s probably untrue.  My body wouldn’t shut down, okay, well, not to the point of dying.  I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed, I’d be lost.

It’s time people.  Time to start giving to CHILDHOOD cancer.  I know, I know, it’s OCTOBER….”BREAST CANCER MONTH, Melody, not SEPTEMBER.”  Yes, I know, BUT how long are we going to continue being okay with only supplying ONE PERCENT of cancer funding to children?  How long are we going to blame this on not having a FACE, a NAME, or a “squeaky wheel?”  If your child were dying would you be okay with that?  With just “going along?”  I know I wouldn’t! I’d be up on the Empire State Building DEMANDING funding be used towards finding a cure for this monster.  I’m tired of hearing about how Susan G. Komen gets breast cancer funding by being “the name.”  Do you know how many MORE women survive breast cancer than children survive their types of cancer?

I’m sorry if you have breast cancer, your mother, your sister, your brother, your dad, your husband, whomever has it….I’m SORRY, but I cannot sit around and talk about saving the tata’s when there are CHILDREN dying.  Children who haven’t even begun to LIVE.  Adults have lived their lives, mostly, and can say that they’ve done at least a few things they’ve wanted to do before they die.  There are babies BORN with cancer.  Which means they haven’t even lived long enough to KNOW what living is!  Don’t tell me that that is “better” than knowing what you’re missing, if you can say that, then you don’t have children.

My three year old is still awake because I can’t bear to make him go to sleep right now.  I need to see him, hear him, know he’s here.  I can’t keep the other two up because they have school in the morning, or we’d ALL be awake.  I need to know that he’s okay, that he’s breathing, and healthy, and here.  And most of all I need to feel him.  Feel that he’s right here beside me, even if he’s playing.  HUG your children, hold them tightly no matter how much they protest.  It won’t be long before they’re embarrassed by your kisses and hugs.

I wish I were rich.  I’d love to win the lottery.  Sure, I could use a new car, a house, and clothes and all that other stuff, but right now, I just wish I were rich enough to afford to make a huge donation in the name of Lane Goodwin and Ronan Thompson.  A donation that I would make certain was spent ONLY on the research of children’s cancer.

There has been ONE new medication made in the last year for this….ONE.  I wonder how many have been made for breast cancer?  I’m not even looking.  It’s late, and I don’t really want to have to go pick up my broken computer from the ground along with the window I’d be throwing it out of.

I’m sick, I’m tired, I’m disgusted.  I can’t even think straight.  This post is probably a jumble of pure and utter BS.  I don’t care.  I just want these children to be healthy, happy CHILDREN.  Oh, and I want them ALIVE.  We have to fight back.  These kids are fighting, so why aren’t we?  They’re giving their LIVES to a disease that hasn’t been kicked yet.  Let’s help them kick it.  If you have it, please donate.  I have a post that has the links here to donate.  If you can’t afford to do it monetarily, go to a cancer ward in your nearest hospital (as long as you’re HEALTHY) and donate your TIME.  Sometimes these kids are in the hospital for weeks, months, years at a time and sometimes those same kids are there BY THEMSELVES.  Parents still have to work, life goes on, as cruel as that is, and wouldn’t YOU love a visit?

Please, take the time to consider donating SOMETHING.  Hats from clothing stores would be GREAT!  Scarves, clothes, something to make the little girls feel pretty, and the boys look handsome.

Please?

P.S. Remember when I posted in this post about Super Ty?  He lost his battle today too.  I JUST heard about this right this minute.  He just turned five on the fourth of this month.  FIVE….. Now, tell me why childhood cancer only gets ONE PERCENT of funding?  I’m without words…..I leave you with…

FUCK YOU, CANCER.  Fuck you.

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