Welcome to This Precious Life Blog!

This is a place for those looking for encouragement when life is kicking you in the gut. It’s a place where we support each other in this thing called life..especially life with pediatric cancer. It’s a place where you can be lifted in prayer. It’s a place where it’s okay to share your fears, tears, hopes, and loss.

My prayer is that you will find fellowship, prayer, and resources that will carry you through this moment or even the day.

During our journey with pediatric cancer, I often felt Christ was nudging me to be very transparent about what He was doing in our lives. We had a choice every moment to stay in the darkness that comes with watching our child suffer through cancer and treatment or we could look to our Heavenly Father for guidance, peace, and comfort. I found myself crying out to Him many, many days and He provided me what I needed when I needed it. I often hear people say, “He doesn’t give you more than you can handle.” I don’t believe that for a second, because how do you handle watching your child have cancer? He gives you more than you can handle so you will lean in on Him and have the opportunity to grow in your faith.

My 11-year-old son, Cooper, is currently NED (no evidence of disease), but the struggles and transition continue. Although our season has started to transition to a time of healing and replenishment, you are never fully done with cancer, once its reared its ugly head.

During this time of healing, I’ve felt the continued urge to not only share our story in hopes it will be a light for others going through a traumatic experience. But also to provide a place to be prayed for and to provide resources.

My words are truly a reflection of our journey. Every single cancer journey is different. It is your story. We were beyond blessed that Cooper is still with us, defying all odds the doctors gave us. Many families cannot say the same. There is a permanent hole in their heart. I pray my words to bring only peace to those that have to try to figure out life after such an unspeakable heartbreak.

This Precious Life Blog is about sharing the moments of celebration and the moments of heartbreak that leave you breathless.

Pediatric Cancer – When Life Throws You a Hard Curve

During the time that I created this blog as part therapy and part to help other moms and parents traveling through the childhood cancer journey, my son was in treatment. He went through three years of tough treatment, radiation and all things horrific with cancer came along with it.

Then we added a pandemic to make things even more challenging. Going through treatment with very immuni-suppressed kiddo that was on chemo and radiation was a time I just soon forget. We were separated for 8 long weeks when the COVID fear swept the nation. My husband with him, while I was home with my older son doing virtual school and working to hold on to my job, our only income.

It was a scary place to be, but we continued to seek Jesus’s hand through the journey. He showed up every moment of every day, even the day that he took Cooper’s hand and whisked him to Heaven. That was April 1st, 2021.

Since that day, our lives have focused on the next thing. We’ve gotten to know grief like it’s a best friend.

But, God doesn’t give us the trial, a fallen world does and our mission is to continue to seek His guidance and share His glory. My pain has a purpose and He has given me the gift of words to share our faith with others in the grief place through this blog and other projects in the future. It’s a slow process of learning to live in the grief place, but I’m finding it doesn’t all have to be bad all the time.

Thank you for hanging with me and please share your story with me and I’ve found that even more so than ever, This Life is Precious.

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