‘Cancer Mom’ Gets Real About Raising Sick Daughter: ‘Please Don’t Call Me Strong’
One Minnesota mother is opening up about life as a “cancer mom.”While many have called her “strong” and told her to “keep up the fight,” Christa Keehr wrote that life as one of the millions of parents of children with cancer is not always so courageous.“We are tired.
We are weak.
We are terrified.
We wear T-shirts with our kids names on them, and call them fighters and warriors,” Keehr wrote in an emotional post on Rochester Mn Moms Blog.“As cancer moms, we have to pump our children full of toxic medicine, catch their puke buckets, hold »