No One Spotted My Toddlers Cancer
In the middle of the pandemic, no one ever saw my baby. It has been three years since Tabby was first diagnosed with cancer. As if my life wasn’t hard…
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My Five Long-Term Hospital Stay Essentials
This post contains affiliate links. If you click them, thanks for supporting QLF. Spending any amount of time in the hospital with a child is pretty tough. Even an outpatient…
Turning Two After Cancer
A birthday is pretty special for your kids; they're getting bigger, growing older, and becoming their own people. A birthday for a kid who has survived childhood cancer is...something else.…
Navigating A Child’s Health Care As A Non-Binary Parent
Since Beany's cancer diagnosis in October (has it really been that long) I've come to discover a whole host of new challenges that come with being a nonbinary parent. Navigating…
I am turning into my mother
For a long time, both growing up and as an adult, I feared turning into my father. He's just like his mum and I used to worry that eventually, I…
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Parental Guilt, Intrusive Thoughts, and Childhood Cancer
One of the first thoughts I had, when they told me Beany had cancer, was that she was going to die. That I was going to lose my child, the…
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My Kid Has Cancer
I'd actually been working on Beany update post - she's 16 months old, I've neglected the blog even though there is so much to say and now everything is...different. Four…