I am SOOOO excited to be a guest darer this week at the Digi Dare Ya blog! This week we scrapped our fears...this is my take!

Journaling: Faces wet from crying, noses red from running, eyes puffy from a lack of sleep, our family faced our worst fear in a children’s oncology unit. You were admitted to the hospital, almost comatose, and nobody knew what was wrong. We breathed a huge sigh of relief when we were told it wasn’t leukemia while we were still in pediatric emergency. But that was just the beginning. Every test they did ruled out another disease, and the further we were getting from an answer. At least that’s how it’s felt. You weren’t improving, and you were slowly getting worse. We couldn’t think, we couldn’t eat...even leaving to have a shower felt like we were deserting you and that something would happen. We cried, we prayed, we tried to sleep but we would just toss and turn. We watched over you every waking moment. We were afraid that you might die, we were preparing ourselves for the news that you would. This was our worst fear...the possibility that our little boy, our baby, our firstborn, may die before us, at such a tender young age. Thankfully, once you were diagnosed, you nearly immediately started to improve, and within days you were up and around on your own will. You were strong, stubborn, and the most amazing little boy. Our fear ended there in the pediatric oncology unit...you improved, and you are still alive and fighting this cancer. Your will to live has eased our fear, even though once in a while it sneaks back up on us, we know you’ll make it because you are you.

(To clarify...when I said in the journaling he didn't have leukemia...this was while he was still in emergency...the oncology expert came down and said that Mason didn't have leukemia, because there was nothing in his blood. 2 days later they did a bone marrow aspiration because they still hadn't figured out what was wrong, and his bone marrow was full of leukemia cells, so he was officially diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia).

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