Fighting With Them
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Our Mission: Raising awareness for childhood cancer. Following through With Derrick’s wish to bring smiles to other kids in treatment
08/08/2021
Oh man! I sure do miss him!! I saw a boy and his mom in the store the other day and he reminded me so much of Derrick I got stuck for a minute just listening to him talk to her. I though about how I just miss his voice and the curiosity that came with it. No day is easy but knowing that everyday I’m keeping my promises is what gets me to the next day. **kcancer
02/29/2020
Got stuck for a very long minute. I saw these and I took me a few just to walk away. I kept turning around and going back and saying Derrick would love these. For some reason I just couldn’t let it go. I haven’t had a moment like that in awhile. I finally stopped trying to force something I couldn’t do and just took it in. I remembered all the great times and all the memories I have of him in his shark swim trunks. How happy he always was and how wonderful it was to get to share life with him and how much I have learned from him since. I handle these moments better each time but it still brings a pain I don’t want. Even though it brings that pain I embrace it because I need to feel it I want to feel it. I had so much left to give him that I feel the only way to do that now is to embrace those feelings and feel my love with the pain of him not being here. It’s not easy. I just want to hug him, mess up his hair and encourage him to be himself in all it’s glory. Because I would get to see him run off with his crooked smile and some Smart ass comment. It’s amazing what the mind can run you through in moments like this. So many happy times came to me in the 5 minutes I was struggling to walk away and when I stopped trying was when I felt at peace with it all. Right there in the middle of the grocery store all the emotions of grief washed over me and I took it all in and embraced it. I embraced the journey we have been on since Cancer walked in our lives. I have embraced the grace and strength in which my girls have shown everyday since, I’ve embraced my own strength, Grace, and courage to move forward each day with a positive outlook. I never could have imagined this but we are here and we are making it through each and everyday stronger better versions of ourselves. Everyday we fight because of him!!💕🎗🧡
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Derrick’s Mission
We are a Nonprofit raising Dollars for Donuts.
Our story starts with my son Derrick who was diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in November of 2017. He fought for six months and passed in May. During his Journey he had a squishy animal pillow that he took with him everywhere. This pillow never left his side, it was so much more than just a pillow. It became a source of comfort for him when I couldn’t be with him in his procedures and a friend when he couldn’t have his human friends. It was also the only pillow he would lay his head on. Donut is super soft and portable. We had an hour drive to hospital from home usually a couple times a week some weeks it was everyday. Derrick had to lay down or he would get sick so Donut gave him a great place to lay his head and be comfortable the whole way. When we had hospital stays Donut was his friend. Through his journey I learned how under funded Childhood Caner is. Derrick over heard a conversation I had with someone about it and asked what we could do. So thats when we started selling our shirts. He loved that we were doing something, everyday he wanted to know how many we sold. It gave him something to look forward to. When we were told we were out of options we came home from the hospital. One night Derrick and I had the chance to talk about some pretty big things. In his final wishes he asked me to make him some promises. One of them was to keep selling the T-shirts, but he wanted us to put the money towards buying pillows like Donut for other kids in treatment.
“Everyone needs a friend when you can’t have any” -Derrick
No mother should have to walk down that path with her child. No child should have to either. The way my son took on everything gave me the strength to carry him when he couldn’t walk anymore. It also gives me the strength to carry out this promise I made to him. This is so much more than just squishy pillows, it’s smiles on kids faces, it’s knowing someone cares, it’s so much Love and Compassion for these mighty warriors and their families. They all need to know that there is an army fighting with them to beat this thing!
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