On Friday when I was helping out at the Race for the Cure, I stopped by the Merchandise Booth, since I knew I would want to do some shopping. I noticed the “Co-survivor pin” and I thought of my niece, Tracina. If anyone deserves that pin, it is her. When my sister, her mom, Mary got breast cancer almost seven years, Tracina was there for her. Tracina just had her second daughter, Isabella at the end of March. My niece, along with other family members, was there at the hospital when Mary had her surgery to remove the cancerous tumor. Tracina helped take care of her parents and her siblings that October. Quite a few pictures were taken during the time, but the one that says it the most (for me) is the one where Tracina is washing her mother’s hair. Because of the surgery, my sister could not lift her arms. What a wonderful way to honor her mother; to return the kind acts of service rendered in her behalf as she grew up.
I agree, if I had to go through cancer I'd want a daughter like Tracina.
ReplyDeleteNeat story. With Mother's Day still in our minds, this is a Mother's Day type story, a story about honoring mothers. Good of Tracina to treat her mom so well.
ReplyDeleteP.S. -- I wondered if you had went to the race this year. I wish I had, in part just to be supporting the Susan G. Komen folks in their year of controversy. Although Komen reversed their decision and did continue to fund Planned Parenthood, many still boycotted them this year because they almost pulled the Planned Parenthood funding. I would have liked to have been supporting them, as a way of saying I am against funding of Planned Parenthood.
ReplyDeleteA story worth re-reading at this time.
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