Hi, My name is Melissa and I lost my mom Thelma J. Pate to a rare form of lymphoma on December 23rd, 2007. Have you ever lost a parent or loved one to cancer? Are one of your parents or loved ones going through the experience of cancer now? Then this blog is for you. Feel free to allow this blog to be a safe haven of communication for you.
Monday, February 22, 2016
My Story: part 1
My mother has always been the sweetest, most caring, most loving person I have ever known. Anyone that has ever had the privilege to meet her will tell you how much of an angel she was here on earth. This story dates back to my middle school years. A transitional phase in my life where things began to become real. Boyfriends and girlfriends became real, school work and passing test became real, true friends and fake friends became real, and even life and death became real. At that tender young age you don't even notice how God is preparing you. It was in middle school a good friend of mine loss her mother. Her mother passed while giving birth, and I remember then feeling so overwhelming hurt for my friend and her family. We were so young and my first thoughts were I would never be able to live without my mother. As we left school early to show our support for the family, my mother comforted me and had to explain to me that life happens and God makes no mistakes. Who would have thought that year's later I would have to apply this given knowledge to my life...