Dedicated to Those Who Are Missing Someone Today

Christmas is not a happy time for everyone – there are many individuals for whom the Festive Season is very painful as it is the time that they miss those who are gone the most. For parents who have lost a child, whether to cancer or anything else, this is a really, really, difficult time […]

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Musings of an Onco Mom: This Grief Thing

Earlier today I was going through Facebook, and a link to the post below came up in my feed. Musings of an Onco Mom is a blog that Lisl, mother to Emma, has been posting to since July 2014, when Emma was diagnosed with Leukaemia. If anyone wants to try to understand what a family […]

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Gone Too Soon

Today we would like to reach out to all those Little Fighter Families who have lost a Loved One to Childhood Cancer. Losing a child is devastating and never easy to deal with. Parents are simply not supposed to outlive their children and no parent is prepared for a child’s death, even though they may […]

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Dates I Remember…

Today we would like to share with you a piece written by Theresa Botha Nieuwenhuis,  Xuané’s mommy.  The piece was originally written in Afrikaans (shown below English version) but it is so powerful that we translated it so that everyone could understand what the death of a child from childhood cancer does to a mother…

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