angeljoanの日記： Distant Hopes
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On August 19, 1992, we celebrated Michael's first birthday. It was a happy day for all, especially with the hopeful news: After weeks of peaks and valleys, waiting for his white-cell count to reach an acceptable level of 500, his count finally broke the barrier. A week later, Michael was released from the hospital.
For Michael, the future holds distant hopes and nearly certain side effects from the treatments, such as sterility, growth delays, and possibly even secondary tumors. But with the disease now in remission for more than two years, Michael has 95 percent probability of a life cure. After five years in remission, he will be considered cured.
Five years is a distant horizon, a long road ahead. But in our eyes, for today at least, he is cured. We are not in denial of impending, dreadful possibilities. Rather, we are constructing the walls of a grateful spirit to keep the phantoms of anxiety at bay, phantoms that would steal the blessing of God's spirit today.
I ask my son, now almost 4 years old, "Michael, someday do you want to help people too? Maybe you can help kids who are sick?"
In a grown-up voice he says, "Yeah, I can help too."
Michael's words are like the last small link completing a full circle. We pray the compassion and selflessness we have experienced from our community will not die out, but rather that the circle will grow larger.
And perhaps Michael will one day like Dameon Sharkey, the boy whose gift became a vital link in a chain of love.
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