08/23/2026
Life after the bell. 🔔 After the very deserved cheers, bubbles, singing, and celebrations.
It is an absolute blessing. One we will never, ever take for granted. But it is also often the time when all the trauma you experienced in survival mode begins to surface.
You ring the bell, and your life is supposed to go back to normal, and in so many beautiful ways, it does. But no one really talks about the effects of being on chemotherapy from 3 to 6 years old and what that can do to a child physically, emotionally, and developmentally. No one talks about the therapy it may take to help your family find “normal” again. No one talks about how one “off” lab result or the sight of petechiae can send your entire body straight back into survival mode.
Life after the bell is such a beautiful, beautiful thing. But man, it can coincide with so much hard, too.
I usually try to keep Millie’s page uplifting and encouraging, and I hope it always will be. But today, I also want to be honest. We are so so incredibly grateful, and we are still healing from all the trauma.
Millie’s next lab appointment is September 4th, and I would love for you to join us in praying that everything comes back completely normal. 🤍
I posted pictures of Millie’s first summer off treatment and her first day of school! Disney World and Gulf Shores…and now this girl is in first grade! Time is flying. 🥹