The wife who healed her grief with his story

Last year I was contact from a client who wanted to reorder copies of a book she had made of her husband. I smiled when I saw her name. I remember how sweet she was. She was so excited to meet me at the street fair. She’d even thought of joining my team, but she had many other things on her mind. She had a 6 month old, who was squirming in the stroller, and her husband caressing her arm. She then told me quite in passing that her husband had brain cancer and wanted to do a book for him.

We talked several times, but she got busy with driving him to treatments. She even opened up a coop of daycare for people who’s families needed daycare during cancer treatments. Right before father’s day, I noted that she’d published her book. She said it came early, and the family was so excited about the book, they couldn’t even wait until father’s day to give it to him. It was a joyous time.

When the email came into my box, I smiled because I thought of the connection that this family shared, the love she had for him, and the joy in his eyes when he looked at his daughter. The email unfortunately was sad. He was losing his battle with cancer. She reordered the book for key family members, and soon I’d gotten another email that he had passed on.

Although it had a sad ending, the beauty was that his story was written for his daughter. His story was written, so that his wife could smile each time that she read his story. His story will live on forever. Perhaps one day, she will be a speaker at one of our Healing Through Story events...perhaps someday, his story will live with you.