To my darlings
How do you plan a future for your kids that you might not be part of?
Facing off against cancer, Lauren Murphy wanted to be certain of one thing: that her children would know how hard she tried to stay.
In an ambulance racing through the night, Lauren Murphy tells her husband Antony she loves him. Then she closes her eyes, not knowing if she’ll open them again.
She wakes to a false dawn: she’s alive, but the cancer she was rid of is back — and it’s spread.
Worry is gnawing at her too: worry that she won’t see her son start school, or her daughter graduate. Most of all, she worries about leaving them without their mum.
So she starts documenting: birthdays, hospital appointments, chemo sessions, living room dance parties; so they’ll always know her — and know how much they were loved.
(as seen on Stuff.co.nz)
