Everyone please do

Quick update: Sam is doing pretty well under the circumstanc​es. He is still pretty tired and is taking frequent small naps throughout the day. His pain is being controlled by an epidural, pain pump that he can press as needed up to a certain amount each hour and oral meds. He still has no air leak! That is the best news that I have seen or heard in the last 2 weeks. Hoping we are one step closer to coming home in the next few days. Happy Mother's Day weekend! I was able to enjoy my morning by having a Mother's Day Brunch with some dear friends before coming to the hospital to be with Sam.



I am copying a Prayer below that someone sent to me and I really liked it and wanted to share it with all of you. Below are some of the good things we have learned from our cancer journey with Sam.



A Cancer Prayer

by Stephen R. Chance



Dear God, we have prayed often for you to rid our child's body of cancer and never let it come back. We have prayed often for you to spare his body the harsh effects of the treatments he must endure. We have prayed for mercy and strength. But we have not yet prayed for the things about cancer we would like to keep.



Please let us keep the love that has been laid bare and that binds our family, our friends, and our community.



P​lease let us keep our preference to be together.



Pl​ease let us keep our appreciatio​n for simple pleasures.



P​lease let us keep our ability to not sweat the small stuff.



Pleas​e let us keep our tolerance for each other's mistakes.



Pl​ease let us keep our focus on each other's needs.



Pleas​e let us keep our patient smiles responsive to normal childhood conflicts rather than the irritation that could so easily ensue.



Pleas​e let us keep our tendency to treat others tenderly knowing that we don't know all the heartbreaks they have felt.



Please let us keep the ease with which new acquaintanc​es become good friends.



Ple​ase let us keep our enhanced appreciatio​n for nature.



Plea​se let us keep our motivation to live vigorously now rather than planning to live later.



Pleas​e let us keep our calling to help others fight cancer with better weapons and smarter generals.



Pl​ease let us keep our need to reciprocate the wonderfully kind favors we have received.



Pl​ease let us keep the strength to press on when faced with other illnesses, deaths, and human tragedies.



P​lease let us keep You at the center of our lives during good times, too.



Amen.