A Daughter's Point of View
Hi. I’m Eve. I’m almost 15, I love volleyball and Grey’s Anatomy, and I’m the daughter of a four-time cancer survivor. Yes, you heard that right. Four separate cancers; eight years; one person. Some families play football, some families go to Harvard, but what do we do? We beat cancer. I don’t remember much about my mom’s first 2 cancers since they all happened before I was 5 years old. I remember hearing my mom screaming in pain from a surgical complication as she was carried out by a stretcher in the middle of the night while my neighbors held...
A Mother's Nightmare
I was sitting in the passenger terminal at KCI, waiting for my flight to Shanghai. I was anxious to get on the flight and begin my long journey to see my husband, who had not been home for a month. It had been a long year of infrequent home visits since he had been assigned to a long stint in China. Just as I was gathering my things to get ready to board the flight, I received a terrifying call from my daughter, Liz. “Mom, I just got back my test results. I have melanoma!” Words of horror to a...