Cancer In Children, I Don't Understand

I am not sure if I am the only one that doesn't understand this but I guess i will find out.

I do not understand how something so precious as a child can get cancer and pass away long before their time. I am glad that there are places like St. Jude out there that can help these children and their families. The thing that puzzles me the most is that all of the precious little ones are so helpless and then to hear that your child has cancer and that all you can do is stand by and hope for the best.

I knew that things like this happened a lot, but until I watched My Sisters Keeper, I don't guess that I ever really thought about it. I guess it was one of those things that you just block out because it is so heart wrenching. If you have not seen My Sister's Keeper I highly recommend watching it, just make sure you have a box of tissues with you.

Right before I heard about that movie, I was driving to work and heard a story on the radio about a little girl from Crum, MO. It was around July, and her dad and stepmother had found out that their little girl had a type of brain cancer. They had done surgery I believe 2 or 3 times and the last one that they did, they had to go out and tell her parents that their wasn't anything that they could do. I am not sure what type of cancer it was but I do remember that they had said that it was an aggressive one.

The family wanted to be able to give her the one thing she loved the most and that was Christmas. So they had to petition the city to be allowed to put up their Christmas lights for this little girl. As it so happened, the city was so moved by this little girls story that they arranged for a Christmas parade that would go to this girls house for her.

Word then got around about this girls story and the radio station contacted her dad and had asked him if there was anything that his little girl wanted but they couldn't get for her. Her dad said that he couldn't think of a single thing but that he was very thankful that they had asked. After the radio station got off the phone with her dad they was saying that maybe later they could go back and do something for the two other children in this family. (They were meaning after this girl passed.)

Now, I understand what they were wanting to do. They were wanted to make sure that these children got something good to help them through such a rotten time. But, on the other hand my initial thought was how morbid is that. No one wants to think about what they can do after someone so young passes away. But after much thought I understood.

I guess the whole point of this blog is to bring awareness to people. There is so many people out there that never stop to think about donating to something like St. Jude Hospital and maybe they can't, but at least at some time in the next 24 hours I would like to encourage everyone who reads this to look up St. Jude's online and just be thankful that there are places out there that can help people in such a tragic time.

Here is a blog that is about another little girl. Please just go to this blog and read it.

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