While We're Waiting® - Hope After Child Loss While We're Waiting® - Hope After Child Loss

MRI Day was finally here. Everything felt so surreal as we made our way into the bowels of Arkansas Children's Hospital to the MRI area. There's something very jarring about watching your daughter being strapped down to a narrow table and then slid into a claustrophobia-inducing tube ... especially knowing that the results of these scans could potentially forecast life or death for her. Thank you for joining me for another bonus episode of the While We're Waiting podcas...

Hannah's blood transfusion rejuvenated her to such a degree that it was almost possible to forget she was sick ... almost. There was a big reminder hanging over us, and that was her upcoming MRI. Every cancer patient and his or her family understands the term "scanxiety", and there was definitely some of that going on! This would be her first MRI since the day after her surgery, and the results would tell us a lot about how successful the surgery had actually been and whethe...

My guest today is a mother who shares a very different kind of child loss story than what is typically featured on this podcast. Sylvia Blakely has experienced the loss of two babies … one to abortion and one to miscarriage. In our conversation today, she shares the circumstances that led her to choose abortion and the years of shame and regret she endured before finally finding forgiveness and true freedom when she laid her burden at the foot of the cross. Her story is raw ...

Up to this point, Hannah had handled everything that had come her way with remarkable aplomb ... the discovery of the tumor, brain surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, weekly blood draws ... but the news that she would have to have a blood transfusion really threw her for a loop. She didn't know what to expect, and was uncharacteristically nervous about the procedure.Thank you for joining me for another bonus episode of the While We're Waiting podcast in this year-long series in which I sh...

Thankfully, clinic day brought some answers for Hannah's ongoing malaise. Today I share an email I sent sixteen years ago ... Thank you for joining me for another bonus episode of the While We're Waiting podcast in this year-long series in which I share our family’s experiences as our teenage daughter Hannah battled glioblastoma brain cancer from February 2008 through February 2009. My desire is to process through the events of those twelve months with the perspective that 16...

The day we'd been waiting for had finally arrived. Yes, it was Mother's Day, but more than that, it was Carrie Underwood Concert Day! Hannah had been a huge fan of Carrie's ever since she first walked onto the stage to audition on American Idol. She had her picked as the winner from the very beginning of that season ... and spent two hours on the phone after every episode voting for her to make sure she was the winner.When I first heard that Carrie was coming to Little Rock ...