Kind of a bummer...

This post is going to be kind of a bummer post. In the last month I have encountered 2 blogs that have made me sit at my computer and cry, take a 15 minute break, and then come back and cry and read some more. They both involve children and their families enduring cancer. I am going to give you links to their websites, and then warn you that these children and their families (especially their moms) are going to touch your world. Your heart will physically ache for them and you will wonder how a parent can live through that kind of heart ache and it will make you want to go and hug your perfectly healthy children and pray to God that they will never have to fight that fight.

Hadleyfox.com and the Fox Family Blog- This carepage/blog is about Hadley Fox who was a member of the Metro church of Christ in Gresham. She passed away last month at the age of 8 after at least 4 years of fighting a brain tumor. Angela, her mom, is trying to get Child Cancer Awareness license plates instated for the state of Oregon. If you have a car registered in Oregon, and are so compelled, please sign her petition.

Tuesday is a little girl who turned 2 in October. She was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma (aka cancer) last July and passed away yesterday.

I am going to add one more, I don't believe he has a blog or carepage, my cousin Aaaron. He is an incredibly special boy with a wonderful outlook on life. He has been doing chemo for the past 3 years for leukemia. He is a teenager now, but is still his mommy and grammys baby.

I know you are probably thinking that it will be too difficult to read these, and it is. But I just kept putting myself in their mothers place. They are telling their childs story, they want their children to have a legacy, however short it may have been. I think we have all probably been touched by cancer either physically or emotionally through someone we love. Some have victory stories (PRAISE GOD) and some are sadder, but no less heroic.

Please pray for these families.