Amy's 'momentary trouble'

Vinny and Hope have been attending vacation bible school each evening this whole week at our church. Tonight was the last night and they had a ½ hour program at the end for parents and family members to come and listen to the songs they’ve learned and see some of the crafts they made. Afterward, one of the girls who helped lead the kids in singing approached me and told me that during the last song she was looking out over the kids and spotted Hope crying and noticed that she was looking up towards Amy. Thinking about the connection between mother and daughter in conjunction with what Amy’s been going through, really choked her up. A short while later, I found Hope and asked her if she was crying during that last song and she said yes, that she had been. Wanting to know if the leader was right, I asked Hope why? And she said, ‘Because mom was talking and not listening to me sing!’…I didn’t have the heart to inform the song leader that what she witnessed wasn’t the touching moment between daughter and mother that she thought it was. Amy had a pretty good day and this seems to be the cycle of it; on the weeks that she has Chemo, it takes her until Thursday to start feeling better and then Monday rolls around and after her treatment, she’s wiped out. She went to her local doctor today because of her headaches and earaches. She was afraid that she might have an ear infection, but instead found out that she’s experiencing side effects from the White Blood Cell booster she's been taking. At least we now know what’s going on!

This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V