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This is my first time on this particular thread at BYC. It IS so important to have someone to love you through it. My granddaughter was diagnosed with leukemia three years ago at the age of 7. Treatment for leukemia is almost 2 1/2 years of daily therapy. A long road. Her dad (my son-in-law) left right at the one-year mark. So my daughter was left to handle most of it on her own. The doctors told her that it's very common for couples to split up when one of their children is going through cancer treatment. How a father can leave a family in the middle of his child's cancer treatment is beyond my understanding. Of course my daughter and granddaughters had my husband and me and other relatives who were there for her. I went to most clinic appointments with them - and I babysat frequently and made meals for them frequently. Still - no one can take the place of a supportive spouse. By the way, my granddaughter is now 10 years old, off treatment since February 2011, and she's doing great.
If you have someone who supports you and is there for you through it - you are fortunate indeed. My prayers are with all of you who are battling cancer.
So Glad to hear she is doing fine now.....and sad that her father wouldn't be there for her.
Children fighting this disease.........is so hard to watch. That is where i got my strengh to fight. I almost just gave up on life after finding i had cancer. My DIL is a nurse and worked with children fighting cancer. She point out to me , These children can fight this, and you think you can't.
So that put me fighting cancer with all i can ....I owe it to all my love ones, to be with them as long as i can....yes we all have to go sometime, but i'm not ready yet.
