This is how my 2.5 year old son with cancer, his older brother and I survived leukemia treatment and managed to reenter the real world over four long years. Just barely.

Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class or geographical region. One in every 330 Americans develops cancer, during childhood or adolescence, before the age of 20. The cause of most childhood cancers is unknown and at present, childhood cancer can not be prevented.

Words of strangers.

I cry a lot these days. Most things will make me tear up, from commercials on the radio to song lyrics. I guess it the price to pay for having to keep some of the most terrifying emotions in check. After you come to terms that your child may die, you have to forget all

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Candlelighter’s Childhood Cancer Foundation

I thought I would put together a few web sites that I found to be useful, informative and helpful over the course of Skeeter’s treatment. I am also going to use this category to talk about books and other resources that helped me to know what was going on and also those that helped me

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