The sister of a friend of Sarah’s slipped into a coma yesterday and passed away this morning. Sometime last year, she was diagnosed (at age 9) with brain cancer. I can’t count the time that she spent in treatment, but she spent alot of her last year in treatment and recovery.
The loss of a sibling or your child is no easy thing to bear, even if you know it’s coming. I’m asking you to pause for a moment of silence. I’m thankful every day that I’ve never had to go through that and, in a way, cannot imagine what it’s like.
I’ll be praying for her family. I can’t begin to imagine.
Very sad. I hope Sarah is okay, too.
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I am sory for Sarah’s loss of a friend, sorry for that friend’s family. Parents aren’t supposed to survive their young child!!
It is absolutely incredible that children should ever be so sick that they can die. My daughter was born with a congenital heart defect, had open heart surgeries at 4 days old, 4 months old, and at 17 months old (heart transplant). Waiting for a heart exposed me to many parents who feared for their child’s life, and unfortunately some that lost their child. Knowing that your child might die, at any moment, is very sobering. You can’t live in a state of fear, of course, but I try to remember how bad it can get, how you can NEVER take them for granted. Even when they decide to put their clothes in the toilet and sneak candy, all by 9 in the morning, like today. (Thanks for the reminder, this will help me release my anger at them. It’s all just ‘stuff’. Not really important a year from now…)
So sorry to finally stop by after so long and read this. I’ll be praying for both Sarah and her friend’s family.
God Bless,
Amber
Oh, I’m so very sorry. Prayers for all ….
So sorry to hear about the loss of this precious little girl.
I was at a homeschooling seminar once and the speaker talked a little about a girl about 13 or 14 she knew who had passed away also. As it happened, her parents were in the audience, and spoke up. It had been three weeks since her passing.
Her mother asked her, what some of her favorite things were about her life.
She said sitting on the couch, snuggled up and listening to her mother read to her.
This was so moving to all of us there. How many times do we do that, and think nothing of it. Yet it was this dear little girl’s favorite thing. Thank God she got to listen to her mother read a lot, because they homeschooled.