From the lack of support that a parent and patients suffer in the following areas: It was born out of the devastation of my owns sons cancer. Start support groups for parents and survivors to find a new normal and also parents whose worst fear happened, losing their child.ĭefy gravity is the Legacy Project of the Lumin foundation. Make sure every child in the world going through a hard time gets the “ LUMIN FINDS THE LIGHTHOUSE“ book. We are always raising funds for kids to go for lifesaving treatment overseas, we can save so many children if we can bring those therapies here. By that, I mean from the staff to the buildings and the life changing and saving therapies. When we have enough funding we would like to give financial relieve in whatever is needed so the parents can focus on the needs of the child.īuild an oncology support centre and clinic that encourages healing. We take balloons, cupcakes, toys, massage therapists for the parents because they are stressed and in pain. We bring relief and education to the families fighting cancer in the hospital. To encourage, motivate and inspire the families and the children.When it came to the dedication page I realised I wanted to dedicate it to all the brave little fighters and their families and so the foundation was born. I wrote the book- “ Lumin finds the Lighthouse” initially for Dante’, for his courage under fire and to encourage him. He was in the hospital for weeks and months on end. I had to sell my house and stop work to be with him. I remembered scavenging through my house looking for coins for petrol to rush Dante’ to the hospital in the middle of the night. I remembered thinking there is something wrong with this world when a mother or father can’t sit next to their dying child’s bed and just be present and not worry about bills and food and rent. I cried for the first time in sixteen months alone in my garage with Dante sleeping and fighting a fever upstairs. I woke up just before three the next morning, looked for and found a small canvas and only four colours. Parents would rather that the cancer is passed onto them, it is a fact that many parents experience the symptoms that their children have too. You see moms going through children fighting cancer decide that they have no other option but to be strong and don’t cry in front of their children, and save it for when they are alone, but there is never a time where you are alone you just stay with them fighting the monster only they can see. I prayed before I fell asleep one night to be able to cry out this debilitating pain that was pulsing in my throat. I had no more tears and yet a mountain of sadness still left to cry out. I found him and myself depleted of emotional, financial and physical resources. Two years into my baby boys battle with cancer. Who is Lumin and where did she come from?
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