From A Moth to A Butterfly

Tag: childhood cancer

  • What it Takes to Survive After the Loss of A Child

    There is no fulfillment that life could ever provide to temper the agony of losing your child. As so many agree, children aren’t supposed to “go” before their parents. When the life of the one once literally physically attached to your body, is then cut from this world, your child is cut from your soul. Your soul will never again reside in peace. All you can do is survive. You are “here,” but only in body. Your heart is no longer yours. Your reflection is longer You, looking back in a mirror. You are “seen” by those around, but eventually, you are recognized less and less…

    @fuckcancer @losingachild @brokenheart @wheredoigofromhere @loss @childhoodcancer @lifeanddeath

  • … Come Back…

    The next time, any time, they say “hey mommy…?!” Just go. To them.
    Nothing you are or will be doing at that moment, will ever be as important as those few minutes you could have shared with your child.

    #fuckcancer #amotherslove

    Come back

  • My First True Love, My First True Loss

    My handsome beloved. I get so lost in my head wondering, imagining, how all the more beautiful you would be now. My heart will always belong to you. You will always be my first true Love.
    ~ His hair had finally grown out enough here, where’d he’d remove his beanie and not be embarrassed. He was so self conscious, and I reminded him EVERY day how beautiful he was. The last several months of his visit* he didn’t want me to post or share any pictures. But he was beauty to behold ~

    Yet another season of Chemotherapy