AnissaMayhew
AnissaMayhew has been a member for 1 year. I'm Married, Work at home mom with 3 kids
Website: http://www.hope4peyton.org
*other places you can find me: www.deepsouthmoms.com www.blognosh.com www.5minutesforspecialneeds.com www.twitter.com/anissamahew * I’m 34 years old and I live in Brandon, Florida (a suburb of Tampa) with my husband and kids. I started blogging in July 2006, days after my youngest was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The original purpose of the blog was to have a way of sharing updates on her treatment and health, but it soon morphed into a tell-all medium for the stranger-than-fiction chaos that makes up our lives. This blog has been my therapy, my tool to raise awareness of what it’s like to live with pediatric cancer and my way to share my faith with others. I don’t pull punches, I don’t gloss over the brutal reality, I don’t make nicey-nice on truth. I talk about cancer a lot, I talk about the kids who have cancer a LOT, I get up on my soapbox and rant and rave about cancer A LOT. But (and how thankful I am) our lives are about more than that. I think my favorite quote about the life of a parent with a child fighting cancer is “Having a child with cancer is like swimming in a toilet bowl. Some may have a bigger piece of crap to hold onto to stay afloat, but it’s all still crap.” We never stop fighting. We never stop praying. We never stop hoping.
