I Promised My Son Forever—Then Cancer Made Me Count the Months

don’t understand until they’re inside it.

This is the part strangers judge like it’s a moral test.

Why wouldn’t you try everything?

Because “everything” has a cost.

Because sometimes “everything” means more hospitals than home.

Because sometimes “everything” means your child remembers you through tubes and alarms instead of swings and hot chocolate.

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