A Parent’s Letter
Your child is diagnosed with cancer, so you start searching the internet for information. The world wide web is full of statistics, treatments, outcomes, etc. As a mother or father, what you may really be looking for is something that reads “Dear parent of a child with a brain tumor/Leukemia/or other cancer…”
Now that letter can be found. Children’s National Medical Center started The Parent’s Letter Project. The idea being that sometimes the only way to be sure you are making the right decision about something important is to get a little advice from someone who has been through the same thing. There are letters about everything from infectious diseases to premature birth, to cancer. On the website you can read letters from parents who have already faced what you are facing. There are even a few video letters to watch!
The Parent’s Letter Project is a great resource. You can find letters from parents that are in your shoes, are a few steps ahead of you, or have completed the journey. Visit the project’s website and read some of the letters, or maybe write your own.