jb12string
08-05-2008, 06:33 PM
I found this at the Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association website, it was posted by a member by the name of iamhistory:
People these days talk about being prepared for emergency situations and SHTF. My wife and I have the S&P spirit and have even started the process of having a green and fairly self-sufficient property. We never thought we would be so unprepared to face the most SHTF situation of either of our lives.
As parents, our most horrible fears have begun to materialize as our little boy Hudson was diagnosed with stage 4, high risk neuroblastoma cancer on July 9th. He was 15 months old when we were told of his condition and of course, have been devastated ever since. He has 5 tumors and a very aggressive type of cancer cell. Since July 9th, he has undergone a battery of tests, surgery for biopsies, bone marrow aspirations, blood transfusions, several chemotherapy treatments, and the list goes on. The more aggressive treatments are yet to come and Huddy will also need to have a bone marrow and stem cell harvest and transplant, as well as surgery to remove his tumors if they have decreased in size enough to do so.
Currently Huddy is receiving his care from a very good team of medical personnel at the pediatric oncology clinic at an area children's hospital. He will also need to be admitted and receive treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where the bone marrow and stem cell procedures will take place, along with some very aggressive and risky chemotherapy and radiation treatments. We are told this is one of, if not the best place in the country for this type of treatment.
While his big brother is outside learning to play baseball, Huddy has to be inside the "clean room" at the hospital to play so he is exposed to as little germs and bacteria as possible which will make him susceptible to infection when his blood counts are low. We are in a very serious fight for our little boy's health.......and even though we don't want to think about it, maybe his life.
My wife will not be returning to work and we will need to make some life changes to be able to deal with Huddy's disease and the impact on our family. If there has ever been a SHTF situation, this is it for us. The impact on us in only a month has been enormous. The initial shock has worn off, we stopped being angry, asking why and crying everday. There are only about 300-500 kids per year who get this type of disease in the United States. Our doctors said it's just a crappy role of the dice and there's really no rhyme or reason to why kids get it. Now we are at the point that it is what it is and it isn't going to be gone if we close our eyes and hope it is just a bad dream. We are staying positive, going through aggressive treatment and we will simply adapt, adjust and overcome.
I wanted to write something sooner to get some prayers generating but just couldn't bring myself to sit down and do it. I posted this on Glock Talk this morning to ask for prayers and if you too could spare some thoughts and prayers, we would really appreciate them. PAFOA and GT are two of my favorite forums. I knew the members of these two sites would take a few minutes out of their own lives and family to keep our family in their prayers.
People these days talk about being prepared for emergency situations and SHTF. My wife and I have the S&P spirit and have even started the process of having a green and fairly self-sufficient property. We never thought we would be so unprepared to face the most SHTF situation of either of our lives.
As parents, our most horrible fears have begun to materialize as our little boy Hudson was diagnosed with stage 4, high risk neuroblastoma cancer on July 9th. He was 15 months old when we were told of his condition and of course, have been devastated ever since. He has 5 tumors and a very aggressive type of cancer cell. Since July 9th, he has undergone a battery of tests, surgery for biopsies, bone marrow aspirations, blood transfusions, several chemotherapy treatments, and the list goes on. The more aggressive treatments are yet to come and Huddy will also need to have a bone marrow and stem cell harvest and transplant, as well as surgery to remove his tumors if they have decreased in size enough to do so.
Currently Huddy is receiving his care from a very good team of medical personnel at the pediatric oncology clinic at an area children's hospital. He will also need to be admitted and receive treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where the bone marrow and stem cell procedures will take place, along with some very aggressive and risky chemotherapy and radiation treatments. We are told this is one of, if not the best place in the country for this type of treatment.
While his big brother is outside learning to play baseball, Huddy has to be inside the "clean room" at the hospital to play so he is exposed to as little germs and bacteria as possible which will make him susceptible to infection when his blood counts are low. We are in a very serious fight for our little boy's health.......and even though we don't want to think about it, maybe his life.
My wife will not be returning to work and we will need to make some life changes to be able to deal with Huddy's disease and the impact on our family. If there has ever been a SHTF situation, this is it for us. The impact on us in only a month has been enormous. The initial shock has worn off, we stopped being angry, asking why and crying everday. There are only about 300-500 kids per year who get this type of disease in the United States. Our doctors said it's just a crappy role of the dice and there's really no rhyme or reason to why kids get it. Now we are at the point that it is what it is and it isn't going to be gone if we close our eyes and hope it is just a bad dream. We are staying positive, going through aggressive treatment and we will simply adapt, adjust and overcome.
I wanted to write something sooner to get some prayers generating but just couldn't bring myself to sit down and do it. I posted this on Glock Talk this morning to ask for prayers and if you too could spare some thoughts and prayers, we would really appreciate them. PAFOA and GT are two of my favorite forums. I knew the members of these two sites would take a few minutes out of their own lives and family to keep our family in their prayers.