When Your Broken Heart never heals

It’s hard to see life through that other family’s eyes when all you see is updates via Facebook and Instagram. It’s hard to understand that just because a child or family member has found a cure, a diagnosis, is seeking treatment or whatever the life-long situation is, that is only part of the story. The truth is most of these families struggle every day. They see their loved one struggle and fight for a normal life again. They deal with the after-shocks for days, weeks and even years later. And that is where we are right now with Emmy. Life after the life altering Earth-Quake.

For many parents, when a disease or sickness attacks their child, they go through many of the same situations. They watch their child suffer, they cheer when they start to feel better or that broken bone heals and then they move on with their lives. The child goes back to school, starts playing their favorite sport again, or gets on that bike and rides into the sunset. But children with brain diseases or brain trauma are different. Especially ones with diseases that go without a diagnosis and cure for years. Sadly, some never get a cure and that is where I always find myself saying, “Thank you, God for finding Emmy a cure”. But as far as those after-shocks we still feel since her second bone marrow transplant, we shutter