In 2003, 7-year-old Maggie Bushway began writing a e-book about her expertise with mind most cancers, whereas her father, Rob, started documenting their household’s story on a weblog. Twenty years later, Maggie, now 28, got here throughout a field containing her dad’s printed weblog posts and fragments of her unfinished e-book. With years of reflection on her well being, household and hope, she felt able to convey the items collectively and full the story she started as a baby.
In an interview with CURE®, Maggie Bushway mirrored on rediscovering her childhood writings and her father’s weblog posts that recorded her early expertise with mind most cancers. She mentioned the emotional technique of integrating these items into her e-book, “Pearls: A Memoir on Childhood Most cancers and Hope.”
Bushway shared how her household introduced consolation throughout therapy and emphasised the significance of discovering pleasure in small moments, similar to constructing forts along with her siblings or creating vogue present skits.
She additionally mentioned how the writing course of was uncovered. Nevertheless, her memoir grew to become a type of therapeutic therapeutic that helped her by way of the journey whereas going through new challenges.
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I used to be given so many prognoses that confirmed that [I] wasn’t going to have the ability to graduate highschool, wasn’t going to have the ability to go to varsity, reside by myself and have a profession. And I simply need children to know that you already know your prognosis is not your life. You’ll be able to attempt to accomplish your goals. You’ll be able to push to make issues occur. And simply because the physician stated which you could’t do one thing, it doesn’t suggest that you will by no means have the ability to do it with therapy and therapeutic and completely different sorts of remedy. Within the case of mind most cancers, yow will discover a strategy to make it occur.
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