Anniversary 🎗🎗🎗

Today is the last day of August. This August marked an important milestone.
FIVE years ago this month, Natalia Sofia was diagnosed with a rare(2% of the nation have it), aggressive bone/soft tissue malignant tumor called Ewing's Sarcoma. While all along I thought it was a boil that had spontaneously sprouted in her thigh. It ended up being a life changer. That word that no parent ever expects to hear about their child.....c.a.n.c.e.r. That word that changes your family's life forever in more ways that you can fathom. No lie. Just truth. No parent ever volunteers or chooses this path for their child. Little did we know that we were about to embark on this crazy journey into the world of childhood cancer. Once the initial diagnosis was made, I was submerged into the deep waters of the cancer world to fend for myself. In the blink of an eye, my daughter was having more anesthesia than me in my lifetime and was getting biopsies, radiation, a port, and toxic chemicals pumped into her tiny 8 year old body to kill her good cells, as well as the malignant cells that had taken over her femur. None of it made any sense....before I could digest the word c.a.n.c.e.r. and what the process entailed, my little baby girl was loosing her beautiful hair. The process was moving so fast.
On August of 2013, the c.a.n.c.e.r. word was thrown into our faces like a fast moving baseball...with no mercy and no prejudice. Little did we know that we were actually signed up to sit front row and center as we watched GOD not only carry us through every single circumstance that the c.a.n.c.e.r. road would lead us to, but we witnessed some of the finest moments in the supernatural, miraculous realm! Our God is a MIGHTY, FAITHFUL and AWESOME God. He deserves all of the Praise! We watched him save Natalia from so many close calls, misdiagnosis, and complications. God always has the very.last.word. The doctors would say one final prognosis, and he would bring her out of it...unscathed.
We watched as HE lifted her up from her circumstance, and she would always come out like she never went through anything. How HE made her so strong.
We watched as HE increased our faith, as HE provided.....for every teeny tiny need. We witnessed through the hardest and most difficult time in our journey, during which Natalia had a third degree raw radiation burn, and she did not feel the pain she was supposed to be feeling, according to her specialists. How during that arduous time, the JOY of the Lord was her strength....she would strum her guitar and sing praises to the Lord...with a smile on her face!
The diagnosis of childhood c.a.n.c.e.r. does not have to be the end. It is the beginning of a beautiful journey and I would not change a thing. Because the end and final result is refined gold. Gold....The finished product of a gritty process during one's lifetime. During the last five years, God has exponentially shown himself to be the ONE TRUE LIVING GOD, still able to do what no one else can do for you. He will meet you where you are and change your life FOREVER. Guaranteed.

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