I kept trying to find an opportunity to explain chemo to my daughter, Freya. It never felt like the right time, you know? Anyway, we were walking in town and there was a poster for St. Jude's Hospital in one of the store fronts with a St. Jude's patient on the front.
FREYA: Hey, Mommy, look at that bald boy!
ME: Actually, that's a girl. And she's bald because she had cancer and she took a special medicine called chemo that helped her cancer either go away or it just put it to sleep. But, it's a poison so it made her hair fall out.
FREYA: [Pause] So... will you have to have this chemo medicine?
ME: Yes, honey.
FREYA: And will your hair fall out?
ME: Probably, yes.
FREYA: [Pause] That's okay, We can just get you a wig. Make sure it's blonde, that way people will know that you're my mom.
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