you’re a parent fighting this fight
with your child, even though you’re
surrounded by friends and family, it is
still a very lonely and personal battle.
We don’t have all the answers, and
we’ve made mistakes along the way.
We understand what it’s like to spend
so much time in our hospitals. We still
live in fear of the uncertainty of this
disease. But hopefully we might be a
real empathetic shoulder to lean and
cry on.
We’ve learned that being on the
outside looking in is a very difficult
place to be. You’re never sure what to
say or do, or even when to say or do
it. And unless you’ve been through
a similar ordeal, we wouldn’t expect
you to know. What we do hope for is
that when people like us make silly,
clichéd comments like, “Stop and
smell the flowers,” that you realise and
appreciate that we know how precious
every moment is. We understand that
most of our lives are the same hustle
and bustle, with less talking and
playing and more texting and screen
time. But, we ask you to try not to lose
sight of the real, important things in
life. And when you remember how
lucky you are, consider paying your
good fortune forward to someone or
something that could do with your
help.
We have chosen to support a
local charity called the Hong Kong
Adventist Hospital Foundation.
They were established in 1999 with
the aim of providing timely medical
treatment to some of the sick and
underprivileged children and adults
in Hong Kong, the mainland and
throughout Asia, through their
heart, hearing, medical, orthopaedic
and cancer funds. The cancer fund
provides PET/CT and MRI scans
and the use of the oncology centre at
the hospital for adults and children
suffering from cancer, and also
provides state of the art TomoTherapy
(radiation) treatment to cancer
patients.
If you’d like to learn more, visit
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Suzanne Goodwin Photography
February 2015
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