Isaac's Thoughts

It is challenging for two adults to walk this journey, much less trying to help our kids walk this journey.  Sometimes the blunt questions they ask when least expected can take my breath away.  We are thankful though when they ask the questions and want to talk because most of the time we have no idea how they are processing all of this.

Isaac's class recently wrote stories.  Isaac wrote about cancer.  His writing makes us cry and we are so very proud of him for telling his story and sharing it with other people.  Isaac said we can share his story on the blog.

Have you ever been so nervous that you thought it was a nightmare?

It was a warm school night and we were all kind of tired and quiet, but the little kids were kind of loud and we were all around the table.

Suddenly Mom and Dad got quiet.  Somehow this made the little kids be quiet but me and Caleb were already calm.  Then suddenly Dad said, "You know that I've been sick for a while."

Suddenly I got so nervous my hands started shaking.  Then Dad said, "Well we've figured out what it is, it's.... cancer."

Suddenly I remembered my Grandma.  My hands were shaking more than ever.  But before anybody could say something he said, "but if you had to pick a kind you'd pick this one."

Still Julia started crying and we all felt scared.

Finally
Mom said confidently that it's going to be OK.  Somehow it echoed in my brain it's ok, it's ok.

But, I wondered what will happen to my Dad?