I will never forget that moment.
‘it’s not good news. we don’t have good news for you.we have found that she has a brain tumour’
That moment of time freezing, your life coming to a complete hault. All your senses stopping for those first few seconds. ‘I must be in the wrong room’ I thought to myself. But the worst part for me was, I was not truely surprised. Deep down I had known all along that my beautiful baby had
Something seriously wrong with her.
How had I, at the age of 23 become a victim of cancer? What had my perfect child who had just turned one done to deserve such cruelty already in her life?
As I sat with my husband that evening all I could say was ‘how will we ever get over this’
‘we wont’ was his reply.
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