Finding a silver lining during a child's sickness

Mickey Guisewite, Parent With A Purpose, shares advice for parents with a critically sick child on how to find a silver lining in life during the difficult time
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Finding a silver lining during a child's sickness

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As devastating as going through cancer treatment with our son was, I feel that so much good has come from it. As a family, we really had to pull together and rally to fight a critical illness and I would say that we’re an extremely close family because of that and we really enjoy each other’s company. Individually, my husband who was a complete type A workaholic who you hardly ever saw has completely transformed his life. He has such a close relationship with his children now and I don’t think that that’s a relationship he could have ever possibly had if he hadn’t faced almost losing a child. Our son has faced death, he’s come very close to dying and he fought it. And he is the strongest young man I think I’ve ever met. And he has a great way about him and an amazing strength that I think can get him through anything. Our daughter is the most companionate young lady I have ever met. She is so caring and so sensitive and it’s because she saw her brother go through such a difficult thing. And for myself, I promised myself that if my son got through treatment that I would go back and help other families going through cancer. So that’s what I do for a living now.

Mickey Guisewite, Parent With A Purpose, shares advice for parents with a critically sick child on how to find a silver lining in life during the difficult time

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Mickey Guisewite

Parent with a Purpose

Mickey Guisewite is a former advertising executive and syndicated newspaper columnist who started The Bottomless Toy Chest after her son successfully completed cancer treatment. The Bottomless Toy Chest is a nonprofit organization devoted to delivering toys, crafts and hands-on activities to hospitalized pediatric cancer patients. Mickey lives at home with her husband, son, daughter, two dogs, two cats and two turtles. When she’s not delivering toys to sick kids, she’s at home trying to find a tiny space on the couch among her two-legged and four-legged family members. 

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