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Medulloblastoma, five years on…

(Preamble: It’s been 5 years since we went in for brain surgery. It’s been a long time since those very dark days. But sharing some moments in the “days in the life” of a mother of a brain cancer survivor child, five years on …. )  I’m sitting in front of a (new) teacher. I […]

How to help friends who have a child with cancer

Please Note: This was a planned blog post a long time ago that never got written, but since this question comes up every so often (unfortunately) I thought it could still be useful to post the incomplete blog which may contain helpful suggestions. Feel free to comment on this post if you have other suggestions. […]

Navigating a Post Treatment World

Four years ago today, Ro’i went in for brain surgery. It’s a day we celebrate. We praise the doctors in Jerusalem that sent us to the experts in Ichilov Hospital. We praise the miracle surgeon and all his oncologists, rehabilitation specialists, and medical staff. While today, four years ago, completely changed our lives forever, it […]

Blessings Over Leavened Bread

Tonight I cried. I cried more than I have for a long time. I cried, not because I am sad, but because I feel so blessed.   Three years ago tonight I was doing bedikat chametz (searching for leavened bread) the night before Passover seder with three kids, alone without my husband and without my son […]

No One is 100% OK, Ever

I belong to a group of “normal, regular” moms online – it is a huge group from all over that supports one another for having to juggle work and kids and the hardships of daily life. As a mom, you may be the manager of your home, but then you go to work and still […]

Cancer Does Not Discriminate

This piece below was written in honor of the launch of The Universal Language by Nicky Gluch.  An eight year old Jewish, Israeli boy from Jerusalem lay in the neurosurgery ward in Tel Aviv, awake but unable to move or speak. He was just moaning and moaning. Standing next to his bed, with her arms stretched […]

Two Years

Today marks two years since Ro’i went in for brain surgery,  when they diagnosed his tumor, his brain cancer sentence. What does it feel like to be two years after the day that changed our lives forever? Carla, a grown woman who suffered from neuroblastoma as a baby described it so well – 51 years […]

Good, Bad and Punishment

Growing up, I always had the belief that if I was a good girl, then I’d be rewarded and things would work out for the best. For example, I was taught that if we treat people nicely, then people will be nice to us. Parents, me being one of them, use this kind of reward-and-punishment […]

The “After”: When You’re Done with Chemo

I was gifted a beautiful orchid from work for my birthday the year before Ro’i got sick. Now, for those who know me I am possibly the worst person to give any plants to. I have this knack of ruining them. Give me flowers, OK. I love them. And at some point you expect those […]

They Think It’s All Over…

So, in terms of monumentous occasions, today should have been one. Well, it was one, but also wasn’t. After over a year, we have finished chemotherapy. Not going back to edit it, but interesting that I said ‘we’ because that’s actually how it felt. Which feels selfish, as it was Ro’i who went through it. […]