Thankfulness
We wanted to take a moment this Thanksgiving Day to express our heartfelt gratitude for the unwavering love and support you’ve shown our family during these challenging times. It’s been only 6 weeks since Hutton bravely began her battle against cancer, but it feels like a lifetime ago, or even a completely different life…B.C. - Before Cancer
In these past 6 weeks, Hutton has experienced a myriad of emotions, from sadness and frustration to feelings of helplessness (asking “Why me?”). However, she has never allowed these emotions to consume her. She’s felt them, processed them, and then emerged stronger and more resilient than before. Despite multiple unplanned hospital visits, the stress of the emergency room, and extended stays, she’s shown incredible inner strength and perseverance.
It’s truly mind-boggling how a 9-year-old’s mind can comprehend all this. But one thing is certain: adults and society could learn a great deal from these young warriors.
We’re doing our best to explain everything to Hutton and provide her with the information she needs to understand. While it can be difficult to encourage her to focus on the positive aspects of her situation and express gratitude, we can always count on telling her how many people out there love and support her and pray for her. We want her to know that she’s not alone in this journey, and we couldn’t do this without the incredible love, support, and prayers of every one of you.
Every year, as I am sure most of you do, we go around the table and say what we are thankful for. But this year, what we are thankful for the most, we cannot really say out loud to her. We can’t say, that we’re thankful that she is alive, that we caught her cancer when we did, that we pray every day that next Thanksgiving we will be able to celebrate that she is cancer free and we have another reason to call her our “Miracle Baby”.
But what we can say is that we are so, so, so thankful for every single person who has prayed for Hutton, who has dropped off a gift for Hutton, who has sent a meal, who has donated to the GoFundMe, who has reached out, who has been there, and who has thought about our sweet girl and our family. We can say that we are thankful that Hutton is surrounded by such a large community of strong, loving, and faithful friends/family.
So, on this Thanksgiving Day, we’re incredibly thankful to be able to spend this Thanksgiving at home. We pray that we can continue to enjoy the next 4 days at home before returning for her fourth round of chemotherapy. And we’re forever grateful for the love, prayers, and support you’ve shown us all.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We are so very thankful to each and every one of you.