Kids Cancer Network is committed to the support and encouragement of all families facing childhood cancer. Our "your story", prayer list, and resource "help center" are areas where those fighting the battle can cheer each other with hope. For those whose battle ends with the death of their precious child, please know that we desire to offer networking opportunities with those who understand your grief.
Sara keeps an ongoing internet diary of her grieving journey. She invites other grieving families to join her as she processes loss and recovery. Find her thoughts at: http://journeywww.fiveyearslater.blogspot.com
Daniel's House Publications
owned by Alice J. Wisler, publishes bereavement cookbooks (Slices of Sunlight in 2000 and in 2003, Down The Cereal Aisle) and provides resources for grieving parents. Tributes, a monthly free grief e-zine, is also available through this organization. http://www.geocities.com/griefhope/index.html
Hoping Skills Company
Hoping Skills Company offers kits to collect and display your meaningful memories in tribute to your child. With unique products and online resources for children and adults dealing with serious illness, grief and loss, Hoping Skills Company strives to help as many families as possible through hope and healing. Their serious illness Tomauro Kit helps to enhance each childıs resiliency when someone close to them has cancer and is ideal for ages 4-13 years. http://www.hopingskillscompany.com
Email: Hoping.Skills@verizon.net
140 Elliott Street, Suite #3
Beverly, MA 01915 USA
Phone : Toll free 1-888-815-HOPE / 978.921.2237
Fax 978.921.2239
Living Day by Day
a private and confidential email group only for parents who have lost a child to cancer. This group is endorsed by the Candlelighter's Childhood Cancer Foundation. Founder, Gigi Thorsen, lost a daughter to cancer and also started the national "gold ribbon" campaign to raise awareness of childhood cancer. Email: gigi@goldribbons.com.
The Compassionate Friends
a national non-profit self-help organization which offers friendship and understanding to families grieving the death of a child of any age, from any cause. Introduced to the United States in 1972, they now have 600 local chapters in 50 states. Local and national newsletters and catalogs filled with resources are available free of charge: T.C.F.,Inc.
P.O. Box 3696
Oak Brook, IL
60522-3696.
Phone (630) 990-0010
(M-F, 9-4 Central Time)
Fax (630) 990-0246 (24hrs)
email: nationaloffice@compassionatefriends.org www.compassionatefriends.org
Afterloss
offers the benefit of professional grief counseling through a program of monthly "Help Letters." They have a special issue devoted to the death of a child, as well as additional books and resources for family members processing grief.
Afterloss
79-301 Country Club Drive, Ste. 100
Bermuda Dunes, CA
92201
(800) 423-8811
Fax (619) 772-7340
If you discover additional resources that are especially helpful for families processing their grief after a child dies of cancer, please email us at: kenon@kidscancernetwork.org. We would love to consider additional help for familes at this critical time. May God hold you close...
"Lend Me Your Hope"
Lend me your hope for awhile
I seem to have mislaid mine.
Lost and hopeless feelings accompany me daily
Pain and confusion are my companions.
I know not where to turn:
Looking ahead to future times does not
Bring forth images of renewed hope.
I see troubled times, pain-filled days,
And more tragedy.
Lend me your hope for awhile,
I seem to have mislaid mine.
Hold my hand and hug me:
Listen to all my ramblings,
Recovery seems so far distant,
The road to healing seems like a long
and lonely one.
Lend me your hope for awhile,
I seem to have mislaid mine.
Stand by me, offer me your presence,
Your heart and your love.
Acknowledge my pain, it is so real and
Ever present.
I am overwhelmed with sad and conflicting
Thoughts
Lend me your hope for awile:
A time will come when I will heal,
And I will share my renewal, hope and
Love with other.
Eloise Cole
Sleeping With The Above
Listen to my story
As it unfolds
Of a young girl with cancer and freckels on her nose
Her life was like a ring
Desiring every new part
She never got to wear it
But she was at ease with her heart
She was still their
Lying in the coffin
But in a way she wasn't
Her expression had softened
She was free from the terror
She was free from the pain
She was free from cancer
She is sleeping with the above.
