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 […]
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 […]
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 […]