Please read the excerpt from a Facebook post from Meg Connor. This encapsulates what our charity is about – celebrating and supporting those cancer warriors and their families. As we leave 2023 and begin 2024, let us reflect on Meg’s words and her and Bill’s will to live life again.
Meg Connor
“A year ago today I had to Facetime Bill while he was in the hospital and tell him that the oncologist called me and he did indeed have AML. My gut had been telling me for weeks that’s what it was, but I hoped I was wrong. I think everyone reflects towards the end of the year, but this year has a whole new emotional meaning for us. This year we will get to celebrate the holidays and Brynnley’s 2nd birthday together as a family because no more hospitals. We are going to have all the “firsts” we missed last year. We lost more than we ever thought possible the last 365 days but through it all we have kept going and we have each other and this incredible village of people who have helped us more than you will ever know. You always think chemo will be the hardest part of this journey but what they don’t tell you is just how challenging life after cancer treatment can be especially with all the long-term chemo side effects. It has rocked our world from every direction and made even the simplest tasks overwhelming. But if the last year has taught us anything, it’s taught us what really matters: you health, relationships, kindness, being a good human, and spending time together. We are so thankful for every single person that has reached out to us over the last year and offered kind words, thoughts, and prayers and to each of you that have helped us with everything from getting us in with the best doctors, finances, childcare, wish lists, dark humor, housing, taking care of our dog, listening to us when we need to talk or cry, all the way to carrying us on the days we couldn’t do it ourselves. I am proud of you Bill and us as a family for getting through the last year and I hope we can switch to thriving instead of surviving soon. Here’s to the next 365 days being brighter and full of more good than bad.”
This excerpt was taken from a Facebook post by Meg Connor and used with her permission