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This May, I'm taking on a 31 day running challenge in support of my local children's hospital!
Every day, over 5,000 children receive care at a children’s hospital in Canada and by supporting me, you’ll be helping fund life-saving research at your own local children’s hospital. Funds for research are needed now more than ever, and your support will allow researchers to uncover new cures and gentler treatments for kids.
Show your support by donating now!
I'm running for SickKids
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This May, I'm taking on a 31 day running challenge in support of my local children's hospital!
Every day, over 5,000 children receive care at a children’s hospital in Canada and by supporting me, you’ll be helping fund life-saving research at your own local children’s hospital. Funds for research are needed now more than ever, and your support will allow researchers to uncover new cures and gentler treatments for kids.
Show your support by donating now!
Updates
What SickKids has been to me
Wednesday 25th Feb Some things I’ve written down throughout our SickKids journey:- desperate hope and sorrow coexisting. But also tender care
- A strange comfort to know you’re at your first choice, but also likely your last option, should that dreadful day arrive.
- An understanding between medical mothers that can see:
- distant eyes, occupied minds, blank stares waiting in line for coffee.
- Your child picked a treat. You watch him eat it with sad eyes, but still smile at me. I smile back. And then I cry. Our kids smile at each other, unaware.
- Conversations without talking
- Steady is the beep in my ear as with the determination in my heart
- Understanding, finally, the truer than true meaning of relentless love that would go to the ends of the earth
- You feel, perhaps for the first time, how sin enters into the world to destroy and how utterly wrong it is
- Suffering children hooked to their lifelines; too weak to walk, too weak to talk - they only stare
- Your heart breaks in a way that longs for the days of Eden, before Eve took that bite and Adam stood silently and stared
- Hearts that do not know God still know: this is wrong
- Thank God for a place that gives hope in suffering, delivered in the most gentle way possible. A strange refuge for those who fight physically and emotionally.
- Here, you do not need to explain. When you cry, we cry too, knowing what it means that you are also here.
- I hope you get to leave, and never come back, in the best way
- Trying to balance the circle of life - those dying to live, those living to die, mothers who would die to trade places.
- A natural cycle that feels grossly unnatural in the face of children, as young as zero days old.
