{Post B Week 4}

Dear Sara,
I strongly admire your courage through your daughter’s illness. It must be so difficult to watch her struggle. Since the start of chemo, you and Brian discussed how not just Kate is going to survive this—but the whole family. The toll that this disease has taken on Jesse isn’t surprising; with runs to the emergency room at all possible hours of the day or night and sleeping in a nest mad with multiple coats sufficing for a bed. Keeping your family together should become the greatest of priorities, because once Kate gets better, it will be too difficult to fix what has already been broken and left alone. While staying with Kate at the hospital, you suggested to Brian about having another baby. He got upset about wanting to replace Kate so soon when she hasn’t even died yet (who knows if she even will?). You had other motives. If you could produce a perfect genetic match to be Kate’s donor, then she would have a greater chance of survival. Not only would you have another child, but you would also be saving the life of the other one. I think that this would be very difficult for Brian to swallow. You were certainly not planning on adding on to your family. Not only that, but a pregnancy might add some difficulties to everyday life. How would you get by not being able to lift things, and what if your pregnancy brought complications? Because your discussion with Brian was being told as a memory, and we already know what happened (followed through with pregnancy and had Anna), I know that you went through with the pregnancy. I look forward to reading about how you dealt with a deathly ill child, pregnancy, and other things that you had to do to take care of for Jesse.
-C