April 25, 2012

A FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE LETTER TO MY STRONG AND
AMAZING SON, ROMAN MICHAEL …


How many times have I sat down in the past 5 years and had it out with God? Some long talks. Some short talks. Some with quiet tears and some with un-controllable sobbing. Some with down- right cursing and some with screaming at the top of my lungs. Some with waiting for that phone call from Dr. Wagner for scan results, so that I could take another deep breath and go on again with our “normal” daily routine. Some have been at the strangest of times too. Like in the shower or flat ironing my hair or just driving in the car. Over the past 5 years, God has witnessed every single raw emotion that has come from me Roman, a cancer mom. Your cancer journey has brought out the best and the worst in me. But, as I look back son, I wouldn’t change a thing.

There have been soooo many times I have talked to God, yelled at God, begged God to listen to me, that I have lost count. But I can tell you one thing’s for sure Roman…God had a reason for making you walk the darkest of walks. He had a reason for making our family look thru different eyes on April 25th, 2007. God does not make mistakes. You and your cancer did not just happen for any old reason Roman. No way! It happened for MANY reasons. And now, 5 years later, I can honestly tell you that all of the many blessings that have been poured on our family from your journey, have definitely out- weighed the bad son.

Today, here we are on your 5 year anniversary of being diagnosed with Stage 4High Risk Neuroblastoma. 5 years ago I thought you’d be taken away from us. 5 years ago, I thought many times “how are we ever going to get thru all of this”. Well, along the way, you have grown from this very sick, little, 18 month old with a stage 4 deadly cancer to a lively, very smart, fun- loving, gentle soul way beyond your years “normal” kid. To see you and look at you, no one could ever peg you to be a cancer kid or for you to have a deadly cancer. You definitely have the battle scars to prove it though.

I have protected you like a mom should have over the past 5 years. I have yelled

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Welcome to the Rescue Roman website.
I am a happy, adorable 6 year old little boy. With the exception of having a peanut allergy, I've been perfectly healthy until my swollen right eye led doctors to discover I have cancer. I was diagnosed in April 2007 with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, High Risk, N-Myc non-amplified.

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Two Feather's Prayer
Hear me, four quarters of the world-- a relative I am!
Give me the strength to walk the soft earth.
Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand,
that I may be like you.
With your power only can I face the winds.
Great Spirit...all over the earth the faces of living things are all alike.
With tenderness have these come up out of the ground.
Look upon these faces of children without number
and with children in their arms,
that they may face the winds
and walk the good road to the day of quiet.
This is my prayer hear me!
 
Black Elk, Sioux

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