I found a blog that brings tears to my eyes and I’m sure it
will to many others.
This blog can evoke strong emotions in a person because looking at a child who has to carry such a burden can easily tug at one’s heartstrings. There is a particular post that stood out to me that made me feel for this little boy and his parents.
I began reading the blog; C is for
Crocodile, which is a blog about his journey and all that he goes through. The
type of leukemia Caemon was diagnosed with was JMML (juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia). Children between the ages of
one and four have about a one and a million chance of getting JMML. This blog
spoke to me because I cannot fathom how could someone so little and so innocent
can have to go through this, let alone anyone else in the world.
This post talks
about how Caemon just wants to be a kid, he was sick of having to stay in his
room and be poked at by doctor after doctor. I can feel for the mother because
to see your child go through all this is one thing but having to take away
something that is so natural to a child as running would be heart breaking.
Caemon's Lesson On Curing Leukemia shows that this boy
knows enough to know how healing works. To see that this three year old knows
that what he goes through can help him get better. His childhood has started out in a
whole other world most people don’t know about through out their whole lives. In
the video he says, “The chemo goes in, the leukemia goes out.” Caemon knows
that he is sick and has to be in the hospital to get better. I feel this boy is
being robbed of the simple pleasures of playing when he wants, being able to be
carefree and not having to be stuck in one room most of the time. But on the
other hand this little boy doesn’t know much else right now. He still acts like a normal three year old but with a little twist to how he is, he's unique, as is everyone.
All in all, the more you read this blog the more you feel for this little boy and his family.
http://cisforcrocodile.wordpress.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM8AH27hRYc&feature=player_embedded
After I read your post about Caemon, I went to the Youtube link to watch the video and felt somewhat emotional to see a little child to have such unpleasant experience and how hard it could be for the mothers to experience this because a mother's child is as valuable as her own life.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for posting about this blog post. I felt really sad when reading what you wrote, and following through with the actual post. The pathos of this blog post brings to the surface so many difficult emotions for one individual. I can feel the pain that is going through the child and the families mind. The emotions that could strike the readers could be happiness, laughter (in a positive note), pain, frustration, empathy, sympathy, anger, deepness, openness to talk about it, thankfulness, freedom, and many more.
Talk about blogs that have pathos. After reading the screen shot from blog about him just simply wanting to run I had tears in my eyes. It is important to share stories like this, because not everyone knows how much people in these situations suffer. Thanks for posting this! very eye opening, and moving.
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