My son had cancer and also my mother more recent. Both were treated at Dana Farber/Brigham in Boston. My son was treated almost 10 years ago, my mother over a year. While my mother had her surgery, I was at the hospital for about 19 hours straight. So I wrote something while sitting and evaluating what kind of people do this work. It was hard, but also my passion to be that person to take care of the suffering. I just wonder where I got that ability to deal with such trials.

I love what you wrote, I know it came from your heart, only a person who has dealt with the cancer of a loved one would have the words that you have. My son was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004, and I have felt each and every one of your words in my heart. But I can tell, in my case that the only thing that gave me strength to help my little kid fighting the cancer was the great love that I feel in my heart for him and the confidence that God was there right by our side. Yes, at first I asked to myself many many times.. why my little son? but now, when I see my healthy son, full of energy, running around, just being a happy kid I know in my heart that everything was a blessing in disguise, and that God wanted us to go through this to show us how blessed we were since the very beggining and how much he loved us.

Since I dealt with my son's leukemia, this feeling remained in my heart and now I feel the need to help others, I feel so blessed and so grateful that I KNOW I must do something in return, and it has become a passion to me too to find ways to take care of the suffering. Yes, you are absolutely right, the greatest privilege is to serve those ones who really need to be helped.