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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Protons and Photons – The new miracle of radiation?
Proton treatment is being pushed as being the winning cure for cancer. But what actually is it and does it work?