There are so many special nooks and crannies up on the children’s cancer floors. This area for the littlest victims of cancer is a state of the art center when it comes to medicine and science, but it’s also a place where a child can play basketball on a real-life size court. They can huddle in […]
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Do you ever really stop….
Sep 26, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 2 comments
Do you ever really stop going through memories of a life once lived? One box leads to another and another and then opening a zipper to find a tape recorder, YES, A TAPE RECORDER, that spent a lifetime traveling the world in places most sane people would avoid. That was my afternoon and once again, […]
Making friends…
Sep 14, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 4 comments
I watched it happen twice today, perfect strangers sharing the cancer experience; talking, exchanging stories, and actually hugging each other when they part to enter an exam room where their doctor will meet them for a appointment. In the out patient center, an African American man, wearing a mask, bald from his chemo treatments but […]
Being the ‘one’ in a group of ‘two’s’…
Sep 13, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 2 comments
There are no rules to follow, no handbook you can buy, that gives you real guidance on how to find a new ‘someone’ after losing a spouse to cancer. In fact, some of us go for years without thinking about it. We all have our reasons and there shouldn’t be any judgment one way or the […]
You can hide from the wind, but you RUN from the water
Sep 8, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | No comments
We really didn’t have a choice, we were going to stay and hope for the best. We were journalists who were in the path of the hurricane, so not only were we going to stay through the storm, but then we’d leave what was left of our property and go to the worst of it […]
We try so hard to be strong…
Sep 5, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 3 comments
What is it about loss that makes us feel like we have to heal quickly and begin again? Really. It’s expected of us to have our moment of sorrow and I’m not talking a ‘moment’, I’m talking many moments that take a long time, but I mean our family and friends think we’ll ‘get through […]
So much to learn…
Aug 22, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 5 comments
So, here I am; beginning again. Every time another year after honoring Leroy’s passing, I think about how I’ve changed. How has this past year been different from the year before and the 8 before that? The first two years were foggy. I really had to concentrate to get things done. The legal documents that needed […]
The night before…
Aug 14, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 7 comments
I didn’t know it, but this was the night before… Death had come knocking a few times and he had always been able to push it away. His doctors had rallied and pulled him out of bad situations. He’d had the strength and the will to go on. There was so much to live for and death […]
Cancer in a far away land…
Aug 2, 2017 | posted by Laurie Singer Sievers | Uncategorized | 2 comments
She lived with cancer for 7 years. It was a real struggle some of the time, when the disease was fully present in her body and her treatment options were few. That’s because she didn’t live here in the United States. She lived in Kathmandu. That’s in Nepal. Kathmandu is approximately 7, 907 miles away […]