Power In The Blood...And In Those Who Deliver It

摘要

Our grandson, Joseph Kennedy, was diagnosed with liver canber at 15 months of age. Over the next year, he spent most of his time in Children's Hospital at the University of Iowa or in the hospital in Mason City, Iowa, where we lived. He survived four surgeries and a ton of chemotherapy so toxic that he weighed two pounds less on his second birthday than on his first.He is now almost twelve and is as whole a person ! as I know. Kathy Roberts, who was the director of a mental health center and so knows well the difference between persons who are whole and fragmented, says simply that he is "centered." Perhaps he was whole and centered when he was one year old and that quality helped him to survive. Perhaps his wholeness and centeredness came out of his ordeal. Perhaps both are true.