Princess cards for Nadine
Categories: Kids 5-7, Health & safety
Nadine is a first grader who lives in Montana. She just turned seven years old. She is undergoing chemotherapy for the second time in her life now. The first time, she had a Wilms tumor on her kidney. The kidney was removed (she was in kindergarten) and she underwent radiation and chemotherapy. And the cancer went away. Until last week. She just had surgery to remove a tumor the size of a golfball. Okay, let me say this again. She just had surgery to remove a tumor the size of a golfball. She is seven years old. My friend Susan, who brought this to my attention, said, "Other people's kids can just break your heart." That is so true.
Nadine has a 50-50 percent chance of recovery. This is not Wilms again. It is something different. Something aggressive. Nadine loves princess cards. So, the writer of Who Made This Mess has come up with a small campaign to make Nadine's life a little brighter. And I would like the campaign to get bigger. I want everybody who reads this post to make Nadine's life a little brighter. Please send a card, preferably a princess card, to Nadine. She has a wonderful friend in Homestead who set up a P.O. Box to retrieve and deliver the cards. Nadine just entered the hospital today to begin chemo.
When my youngest child was in the hospital, nobody knew. Nobody knew, nobody called, and nobody came. It was the loneliest week of my life. Please help Nadine and her family to have a better one. You can send the cards to:
Nadine
c/o Miss Rodeo Montana 2006
PO Box 6951
Helena MT 59604
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Susan 5-24-2006 @ 9:46AM
This is a wonderful thought - I have to admit I am a little worried about the reality of her receiving so many cards. If the parents are on baord - then that is great. I, too, have a child fighting cancer for the second time and mail was great for him, but once from a school we got a packet of 100 or so cards and it was overwhelming. Also - I don't know if this child has siblings but that would be great information to have because the siblings feel SO left out and it would be great if they got cards too. My poor daughter always wanted her own mail. She was little enough we gave some of the cards to her because she didn't know the difference.
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Susan Wagner 5-24-2006 @ 12:39PM
Susan, you raise some valid concerns--Nadine does have a little brother (Homestead talks about him in one of the linked posts) and if anyone is interested in sending him a card or three, I'm sure that would be great. This has to be hard for him, too.
The PO box belongs to Homestead's sister; they will get the cards to Nadine, and I am certain that while they will deliver every single one, they will take care not to overwhelm her or her family.
Thanks, Susan, for your insight. I'm so sorry you are going through this with your daughter; I wish you all the best.
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MamaChristy 5-24-2006 @ 3:29PM
I just made her a card. I hope it makes her heart happy.
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Kristin (Homestead 5-24-2006 @ 3:56PM
Susan-
Good points. What you said about remembering to include her little brother makes so much sense. We were careful to take him presents in the hospital too but I didn't think to include him in the card-writing. The cards will be filtered through a PO Box so Nadine's parents can decide, based on how many she gets, the best way to give them to her. The treatment will be (best guess right now) around 6 months.
As the mom of a child coping with cancer do you have any advice about things to say or do or, more important, things to NOT say or do???
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ann adams 5-24-2006 @ 4:40PM
I just posted this along with the links to the mom's blog and to Susan Wagner's. I may have a few different readers and hope it will help.
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Mary 5-25-2006 @ 9:01PM
Will go shopping for the card tomorrow. Poor kid.
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