really sad

This is a ramble and I hope you guys don't mind..

My older child is a brain tumor survivor.. he was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma in 2008 and underwent an eight hour operation to remove the big tumor and then had radiation to get rid of the unoperal bits.

A pilocytic astrocytoma is a benign bran tumor. His didn't behave like a benign one and presented as an aggressive cancer after much testing it was deemed benign. He has been to hell and back with this and finally he is getting his life back. He was far too young (14.5 at the time he was diagnosed) but he took it on and gave it the good fight.

I joined a brain tumor support group on facebook and I met this one lady who lives in South Africa and we really hit it off. Sadly her little guy has the cancerous sister tumor to what my son had. He went through a few rounds of treatment and it appeared to work but not now. His tumor is back and rapidly growing and he is getting weaker and weaker by the day. His time on this world is numbered and my heart just breaks for his mom.

Cancer is such an evil beast. So please say a prayer for Little Jed and his mommy.. they need all the support they can get...

Thanks for letting me go on

So far little Jed is comfortable and Bon is doing everything she can for him.  She's spending his last days with him and she is holding up for now.  Inside she is heartbroken and shattered but she has to put on a good face right now for little  Jed.  I remember doing the same for Max and I must admit I feel guilty...my son gets to live and hers does not... that bothers me to no end. 

Both of my parents died of cancer but for them it was lifetsyle induced. They both smoked like chimneys and drank like fishes and that caught up with them. 

Gypsy I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your husband to this nasty disease..  A beloved teacher in my life lost his to non hodgskins lymphoma.. he got it just after I graduated from high school and beat it .. and then it came back and he lost the fight.  

Petalsl.. can you just send me via pm words of encoragment and I will post them on fb for Bon?  Thank you so much for caring

Thanks guys.. you all are the best.

My heart breaks for Bonni and Jed and it's just scary how life changes. I am praying for them and I pray for a miracle for little Je

I agree, kids should be spared of this kind of thing.  They're young and have everything ahead of them.  I still remember how it felt to be told that our son had something  potentially deadly growing in his brain and then hanging on to a hope until we heard the pathology results. I don't wish that feeling on my worst enemy.  We were lucky,... our son did not have brain cancer but we did meet some families whose kids were battling brain and other cancers.