One day I stumbled across this blog. I am honestly not sure how I found it or what search I was looking for, but when I found it and saw this sweet little boy's face and awesome hair (it looks like he had more hair than my Gabe did at birth... that's a lot of hair!) I kept reading. As I read this story about Jamsie from his parents' blog my heart broke for them.
They had a healthy, bouncing baby boy and when he was 8 months old they discovered he had a tumor in his brain called a rhabdoid tumor. Sadly, within a month of being diagnosed, the disease took his life.
Obviously this story is heartbreaking. It took breath away though when I read about some of the dates. Call me weird, but I am pretty good at remembering random dates. Anyway, I noticed that James was born in late October of 2010 and he passed away July 16, 2011. He passed away the day that we brought Isaac home from the hospital after his NICU stay.
I think this coincidence in dates struck me because there have been moments in our journey with Isaac that I have felt so down and thought, why me, and why does my innocent child have to deal with all of this. But I realized that despite all of Isaac's challenges, I got to bring him home and he is with me today. I remember the day we brought Isaac home as we were driving out of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Dan said with tears in his eyes, "this is one of the proudest moments in my life."
On the day I remember as so joyous for my family, my heart aches thinking about how awful that day must have been for James' parents.
James' parents have started a fund in honor of their son to help in the research of brain cancer in children. Please visit their blog, http://jamescamdensikes.blogspot.com/ to read about his story or to donate to their fund.
Today I pray for James' family that they have peace. I pray for other families facing brain cancer and tumors that their children beat the tumors. I pray for funds like The James Camden Sikes Fund to help researchers find cures for brain cancer and tumors.
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