One of the greatest gifts in life can be raising a child. It’s not life’s only great gift, but those who are blessed to be a parent find that it can be rewarding yet difficult. The difficulty is often in trying to control an uncontrollable situation. A situation like a baby. You can’t tell why they are crying, but you have to figure it out and make it better. A situation like teaching self-control to a 5-year-old. He just can’t quite sit still, but he is going to school for the first time. Situations like teaching a 15-year-old how to drive. You hope that everything turns out well, all the while your fingernails dig into the armrest of your seat. From the moment you are born, until the moment you leave this earth; life is all about controlling often chaotic situations.
One of the greatest gifts in life can be raising a child. It’s not life’s only great gift, but those who are blessed to be a parent find that it can be rewarding yet difficult. The difficulty is often in trying to control an uncontrollable situation. A situation like a baby. You can’t tell why they are crying, but you have to figure it out and make it better. A situation like teaching self-control to a 5-year-old. He just can’t quite sit still, but he is going to school for the first time. Situations like teaching a 15-year-old how to drive. You hope that everything turns out well, all the while your fingernails dig into the armrest of your seat. From the moment you are born, until the moment you leave this earth; life is all about controlling often chaotic situations.
Each year during the month of October there is a great emphasis placed on cancer awareness, especially breast cancer. What a challenging disease cancer is. The moment you hear a diagnosis of cancer, everything changes. Your hopes can seem more hopeless, your goals are now focused in a different direction, and your fears can become more prevalent. It is almost as if cancer begins to eat away at this control that you have been building throughout your entire life.
The fact is: Cancer is difficult, but it should never beat you. You control the rules of your life, and should never let cancer define who you are. Take back control and fight like never before. Fight the disease and seek a cure when available. Fight to keep your goals moving forward. Fight the feelings of fear that begin to creep into your mind. Fight cancer with all that you have. Even when you think every bit of effort has been exhausted, you fight. Even when doctors say there is nothing left to try, you fight.
The question is what are you fighting for? Sometimes we are fighting for a cure, but oftentimes we are fighting for control. Control to take back our lives and live whatever time we have left the way we choose. Live in the place you call home. Live surrounded by the people you know and love, not in a hospital surrounded by strangers. Live without the effects of treatments, and fight for quality in your life.
Hospice is a specialized form of healthcare that fights alongside you and your family when a terminal illness thinks that it has won. We help you take back control and manage symptoms. We help you fulfill any wishes that are still on your list. We make sure that no one is alone, afraid or in pain. We provide a team of people that will support you in your fight – as you take back control of your life!
If you or a loved one need someone to fight alongside you, please call us today. We believe that you should finish this race well, and we will always do whatever it takes when it matters most to get you there.