What small act of kindness have you done in the last thirty days?
Submitted by One Kind Act.
Grandad - Mother’s Day 2007
Grandad was recently diagnosed with throat cancer. It is not life threatening yet as it hasn’t spread but he had two options for treatment: 1) radiation/chemo which has a 70% chance success rate alone but will destroy his saliva glands (and temporarily his taste buds) or 2) surgery to remove the tumor immediately but the procedure will take his voice box. He has opted for the radiation/chemo combo in an attempt to save his voice. This was a difficult choice for a man who loves to eat and has his own garden and fresh herbs and a man that loves to talk. In the meantime he has a feeding tube because his throat hurts too bad to swallow and he doesn’t like to take the morphine because it makes him nauseous.
I love my Grandad dearly and he lives on a farm about an hour away with my Grandmama. They are having a hard time keeping all the farm chores up with the illness and all right now so I packed up the kids the other day and we headed down for a visit. The kids did the weed eating, the garden picking, the hauling, and any other chore they could come up with. They had a blast. It’s funny how kids love to do chores for other people, but not their own. =)
Little Emma Fishing
Anyway, we decided we would go down every other Saturday to help out as well as just to visit. I hope that if nothing else, the visits will put a little cheer into a dreary time and help take their minds off the illness and discomfort. You can’t help but smile when a curly headed two year old girl wraps her arms around your leg in a hug and looks up with a smile to tell you “Love you, Grandad”…