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Faith and Time

Everything stands still when you’re in the hospital. There is no time, day and night feels the same. You don’t know what day of the week it is and you forget that life actually exists on the outside. Even enemies become friends in the hospital, fighting a war that no parent wants to be part […]

So You Just Found Out You Have Cancer. What Now?

This is a very strange post, as I still feel like a newbie to cancer being a year into it with my son. We are constantly meeting parents of children who have been going through it for years. Obviously, this post is not only for parents, but I am writing it such as that is […]

Why the Cancer Patient is a Samurai not a Soldier

I have trained in the martial arts for far more than 20 years, so I think I can legitimately speak about a Samurai. I studied under the best of the best on three continents, and trained with teachers who can only be called Masters. However, it was not until I saw my own son going […]

A Year In the Life…

“Today is my birthday” said Roí. No, not the day I, his mother actually gave birth to him, but the day he had another chance at life. For it is today a year ago that he went in for brain surgery, where they took out a large tumor that only by sheer chance, luck or […]

Highlights of the week:

Please don’t say I don’t try and keep positive (or sarcastic): 1. Roi was too ill for much of his therapy. Very weak and tired. 2. Assaf woke up at midnight and threw up on a night when Gina wasn’t here 3. I had an unexpected procedure where I am now confined to bed for […]