Elise's Battle with Brain Cancer

So I stopped updating this blog years ago now but I want it to stand as a read for people interested in her or her struggles with cancer. Sadly the world lost an amazing person in October of 2008, and my family is forever changed. If you are here to read about her go to here and proceed chronologically. Update: So it's shortly after Thanksgiving 2017. Our son is now 14, trumpet player and honor student. He is so much like her she is always with me through him. It hasn't been easy but life rarely is for anyone. She scrawled something across the bottom of a calendar in her shaky left handed writing, after losing the use of her dominant hand. I will try to do her words justice: "It's not what we go through that defines us, but how we handle what we go through." We all go through hard times, how we do is more important. Sometimes you have to choose to be happy despite circumstances. To anyone who has lost someone they love, you will always miss them, but it will get easier with time. Almost ten years later I still mourn, I still miss her, but it is more of a loss that has become a part of me instead of an all consuming entity. She was a very important part of my life, and her being there was a gift to me, and the fact she was mine for the time she was I will always cherish. May you find peace in your life too. -Cameron