So, why am I creating a blog. Well, before my daughter Lydia had cancer, I was a busy person...I was a practicing attorney, with my own law practice; I taught courses in Asian history; I was taxi-driver-in-chief to two kids and their many activities; and a person of myriad interests. Suddently, on August 15, 2008 the day Liddy was diagnosed with AML, a pernicious, rare and deadly form of leukemia, time stopped and the world stood still for us. A rare moment of re-evaluating our entire lives presented itself: my law practice was closed, and my focus in life became my daughter Lydia and her healing. There were many moments over the course of Liddy's illness that I thought about how much time I spent away from Liddy, working to help other children, helping clients, doing valuable community service work...but its true that when something happens to someone you love, all other things in life become immaterial. Professional accomplishments, success, wealth, personal satisfication, all seem petty in comparison to the battle to save your child's life...and when that battle is lost, and your child goes to Heaven, all other things seem truly small in comparison.
So, here I am...on the other side of the crisis...learning how to live again, learning how to appreciate each moment, and trying to lead a life of relative quiet examination.
copyright Monica L. Miyashita July 2009
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I'm Monica: teacher, attorney, writer, mediator, yoga teacher, and most important, Mom to three kids: two here, and one in Heaven. Life changed forever in August 2008 when my daughter, Lydia, age 5, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Lydia lost her battle with AML on February, 24, 2009. My husband Mark, my son Max, daughter, Sarah and I are living the "new normal" of our lives, after the loss of our daughter. Join me as I search for and discuss life, and learn to live again.
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