I just discovered an amazingly honest and heartbreakingly poignant post written by a mother as an apology to her children. She is apologizing for the ways that her daughter’s leukemia has impacted her other children and her parenting. Although this is a childhood cancer story, it is amazingly similar to the feelings that parents have about the impact of parenting through cancer.
I can say that I have felt many of these during the course of my husband’s diagnosis and treatment. Beyond that, I will let her speak for herself: A Letter of apology to my kids.