Sunday, April 19, 2009
a reminder.
My friend David, a pediatric oncologist at Hopkins (his blog is on my blogroll), posted this video. He wrote that sometimes, we need to be reminded why we do what we do. And he's right. Sometimes, especially lately, with my thesis, I ask myself time and time again, what the hell am I doing? Can I really stand to watch children get sick and not save them? I'm not even a peds onc; why am I still doing this? And I have to keep reminding myself why I do it, why I love it, and who pushes me to this. Lately I've been having thoughts like cancer just really sucks. People die. Good people die from it. Good people get really sick, get Stage IV cancer, and can't be cured. And I don't have answers to any of this. I wish I did. But then I watch a video like this and think, okay, maybe it will be okay.
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3 comments:
Wow......I'm still crying....
MM
No one deserves cancer especially children, that was an awesome video. You're going to help people Jaime, instead of letting the dark side of cancer break you down, let it make you angry, make you want to fight even harder to heal others.
<3 Linds
I used to look forward to working at our summer camp week when I worked peds onc. It made it better to see the kids just getting to be kids.
If you haven't signed the petition to raise awareness and funding you might be interested in checking it out at www.thepetitionsite.com/1/CureChildhoodCancer
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