Good evening.
Thank you for your prayers for my granddaughter. A couple of the tests they ran came back negative/normal, they are still waiting results on another test. They hope to have the results of that test by the end of this week. Please continue to pray for Jeremy, Lucy, and Elena. Thank you.
I know childhood cancer isn't just about Osteosarcoma, but I am going to re-post something I posted a couple of years ago. It is a tribute to all the Osteo kids out there~~fellow members of a family none of us want to be part of. Here goes:
Osteosarcoma turns beautiful young children into warriors wise beyond their years. Fighting battles that only they can face. Deciding to endure, they hang up their lives on a hook in the corner. Soccer jerseys, football helmets, hockey sticks, basketballs, scooters, bicycles, dirt bikes, and Barbie dolls stand still and silent now. They are armed anew with the uniform of the cancer patient. Broviac catheters threaded deep into their chests, bald heads, bodies hairless and thin and covered with scars. Limping slowly and steadily on heroic limbs absent of their natural bones, they just keep moving forward. They are all tremendously brave kids. I know some of these kids; besides mine. Some I only know through a website; a couple others I know personally. I know these children's lives have forever been changed by an uninvited monster called Cancer~~Osteosarcoma in specific. These children live from hospital visit to hospital visit; chemo to chemo; and (in David's case) from surgery to surgery. And once treatment is over; from scan to scan~~for the rest of their lives!!! I don't know any adult that could handle the brutality of this life, and yet I watched my son and others endure it. Are they happy about it? NO! Do they do it anyway? Yes, they do. They put life into perspective. They prove what is really important and what is trivial. And I have seen more courage in the children that I have watched go through this than I have seen in all the adults in my life put together! I know I wouldn't handle it as well as these children have. I am so proud of David and the others! They are truly amazing children. I really wish all of you could know David and the other warriors~~you would be richly blessed by these children.
Childhood Cancer does all the above to all children, in different ways, but the end result is the same. They do put life into perspective. We MUST find a way to cure childhood cancer!! Please get the word out there! Please help raise awareness. We have this one month to do it. Then we will be pushed aside for pink and breast cancer. Please! All us cancer parents out there beg all of you to help! Our children are our future!
Thank you for visiting. God bless you all.
Kristi and the Koury Klan
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