On Wednesday our first grandchild was born. On Thursday I was diagnosed
On Wednesday evening, January 24, 2018, my oldest daughter gave birth to our first grandchild, a beautiful baby boy with dark hair and even darker eyes.
On Thursday morning, January 25, 2018, I found out I had breast cancer. I was very sick and needed immediate medical care, I was told. In the moments following my diagnosis, I made the very personal decision not to tell my husband and children until after the bris.
Everyone had joked that my daughter, who worked in the same school as me, wouldn’t have her baby until the mid-winter vacation, since I worked full time and rarely took off. And that’s exactly what happened.
Vacation was Thursday through Tuesday. Right after I closed my office and locked the school doors on Wednesday evening, with a long list of things to accomplish, including looking after my ten-year-old son who was sick, the baby was born.
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