You guys, I'm never going to make it (SAD)

[pinkeggs]

DD1 has her first dance recital this Saturday. A little girl who went to the same dance school for 7 years (and whose mother is a teacher there) died of cancer on New Year's Eve. It's been really hard for everyone at the school. She was 10.

The little girl - I'll call her A - was supposed to dance a piece with her mother, even though one of her legs had been amputated. A's death was somewhat abrupt; she went downhill so fast within a week. Everyone thought she would be there to dance it with her mom.

Anyway, now her little sister is taking her place in the dance with their mom and they are doing it in her memory.

I am never going to make it through this recital. I get teary just thinking about it. I read the mom's journal on Caring Bridge and I have had to stop reading a few times because it is so brutally sad. The mom and I will both be chaperoning backstage and I just don't know what to say to her. I don't even think I can look at her without bursting into tears.

I just wanted to get this out. It's weighing on me today.

[muffin0]

I'm crying from just reading this. Fucking cancer. Those poor girls

Edit : I just realized it was the daughter who died, not the mom. Either way I stand by my statement. 

[amberatkins]

 

That's so sad. I just want to give everyone involved a hug.

[papie]

OMG that poor family. I don't know what to say, how heartbreaking.

[rageragerage]

That is so awful. Heartbreaking.

[winelady]

May 1, 2013 14:17:49 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

I'm crying from just reading this. Fucking cancer. Those poor girls

me too My heart breaks for their family.

[Deleted]

That poor family, those poor girls. Fucking cancer

[wannabe]

fuck cancer

[WOT?*]

I'll go with a fuck cancer. Those poor girls. That whole studio is getting big hugs from me. I'm actually tearing up.

[luckyval]

I don't know that I'd be able to sit through that and hold it together, let alone be that mom on stage.

Fuck cancer indeed

[Gato]

I'm so sorry.  Something similar happened to a little boy that my older daughter did Gymboree with.  Once he stopped going, I kept up on his treatment on Caring Bridge.  When his mom posted that his cancer was in remission, I was so happy.  But I checked back just a month or so later and he had died.  I was in complete shock, and cried all night.

I don't know how this mom is finding the strength to perform and chaperone.  I would just say how sorry I was, and tell her that if she needed anything at all feel free to call me.

[fuckyourcouch]

oh man how awful.

we had something similar happen when i was in dance, except it was the instructor/owner of the studio that died of cancer. it was so sad and it was really hard to do the recital that year without her. i'm sorry

[copperboom]

How horrible Don't worry about crying. Tears are totally understandable in this situation, and I'm sure you won't be the only one.

[Kit]

Another "fuck cancer," here. That's so sad.

[pittsmcgee]

That is so horribly sad. I am sure you won't be the only one in tears.

[Deleted]

I'm teary just reading this. I would go with lots of kleenex. I agree that you will not be the only one in tears. Fuck Cancer.

[gretchenindisguise]

Fuck cancer. hard core.

this just makes me so sad.

[tdk2]

oh shit, I cried reading this. I don't know how you'll keep composure either. I don't know how the mom will. She has a special kind of strength. :*(

[snickers]

Holy shit, that is moving. How sweet of them, but I doubt there will be a dry eye in there.