we never know when our feet will be held to the fire and a promise we made to someone means more to them than the breath of life itself. all I have to say is No regrets Why you ask because this promise meant so much more to my Daughter Ember Doherty, who lost from what I have heard a beautiful smart and all-around wonderful teacher to Cancer that I think in many ways inspired my daughter. when I first heard about this amazing educator and her fight to win agents Cancer my Daughter asks me what I thought about her shaving her head if her teacher lost all of her hair from her cancer treatments. the first words out of my mouth were “ok but I want to do it for you, I'll shave your head” the next words out of my mouth were words that at the time I didn't know the power they would have or what it would mean to my kid, I said I do it with her to show support for cancer. months went by I would ask Ember from time to time about how her teaches was doing and she would tell me she was fighting the fight and all the wile in the back of my head I was thinking I hope this Teacher wins her fight agents cancer seeing as there was a part of me that didn't wont to shave my head I loved my purple hair. yes, I know a bit chicken shit of me and selfish and I still didn't know at the time what the promise would mean to my kid.
the months went by and saw my daughter and her older brother graduate high school all the while this Amazing teach that touched my daughter Ember Doherty was fighting the good fight agents a kind of bone cancer. with Ember now out of School and looking for higher education and deciding to take a year off my parents decided to take her on a trip overseas to Germany to meet the rest of Oma's family. she knew it might happen that it was a possibility her teacher would not win the fight agents Cancer.
Sadly Ember would find out while on her trip that her Teacher lost her fight agents cancer and she would miss the memorial service for this teacher that hand touched her so Deeply. it was through Face book that I found out wan Ember sent me a Massage my heart broke for her at that moment and I knew she wont to shave her head as soon as she got home that was Wednesday 8/14/2019. that Sunday 8/18/2019 she got back home to the stats at 3am I of cores called my mom knowing that Ember would wont to shave her head now more than ever so I settled for Monday thinking the kid need rest she was probably jet-lagged.
Monday 8/19/2019 came and Ember's stepdad picked her up after he got off work brought to our home and of cores I hand to ask her all about her trip I was stalling I didn't wont to shave my head, so I gathered the courage and told Ember yet What I saw in her eyes and on her face said it all that this small simple promise meant so much more to her now and I could not back down i could not go back on my word I hand to do this for her.
it was thanks to Ember that I did this at that moment she gave me the courage to shave my head. because I saw how much it would mean to her if I did this with her and how heart broke she would be if I didn't follow throw with that promise I made so many many months ago.
that promise I made to shave my head with Ember Doherty to show support for cancer awareness is one I have taken to heart that promise as taught so much about the power of keeping your word and how making a promise and keeping it can impact someone.
so with that in mind, I ask anyone that's made it this far in reading to please share this post help my daughter Ember Doherty to rais awareness for Cancer in all its forms. Cancer is something that impacts all of us in one way or another. in this day and age, most of us know someone who is battling Cancer or has wone the fight or we have lost someone dear to us to Cancer. it is my hope to see this go far and wide and to perhaps making it a little more Knowen how Cancer impacts us all in one way or another. and to further Keep my promise to my daughter by taking this one step farther then I hand said I would.
