Thats cute, keep going, specifically saying goodbye to what?
She was 13 1/2 at diagnosis with High Risk ALL Leukemia. She was treated at CHEO (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario) here in Canada.
She was recently there for a routine OFF Treatment Apointment, and made the comment "I know I hated coming here when I was on treatment, but I just realized, I really miss this place"
Just before she was diagnosed, we had just ordered tons of stuff from Home Depot (Windows, Kitchen Cabintets, counter top ect), to finish renovations we were doing. We were planning on moving to London Ontario where DH would go into management with the company he works for. We ordered the stuff, it would be in in two weeks. (that was early February 2005). Then we had friends helping us to do the renovations, then we'd put the house on the market March 1st, and hopefully having a moving date sometime that June.
Before the two weeks were up for the Home Depot stuff, our daughter was diagnosed with this cancer.
Well, then, the whole move was on hold, up in the air. We were assured there was a great treatment centre in London (Children's Hospital of Western Ontario), but after the first two weeks of being in Hospital, my daughter said,
"I don't want to move right now" I assumed it was because of friends and extended family that she needed for support right now and mentionede to her I understood that. She replied with "NO, it's not that, IT'S THE NURSES AND DOCTORS.....London won't have THESE NURSES AND DOCTORS!"
We made the decision right then, that there would be no move, She had to come first. Giving up the move meant giving up management, as it wasn't an offer that could be put off for a while.
But you know what? Both DH and I KNOW, it was worth it! I think even us the parents would have lost a support system had we moved so far away to where we knew NO ONE!
So ya my daughter loves her nurses and her doctors, and wants to ask if she can volunteer in the playroom on the oncology floor as a way to earn her volunteer hours (necessary for graduating)
Sorry, I didn't plan on writing a book here, but that's the story in a nutshell.