My daughter loved to call her neurosurgeon by his first name.  I was giving her a hard time telling her it was disrespectful and she told me, “Anytime a man messes with your head you can call him anything you want.”  She is a brain cancer survivor and her neurosurgeon loves that she calls him by Jurgen and not Dr. Luders.  He laughed when I told him what she said.  (Eileen Mclaughlin/Oct 2011)

After brain surgery, my son had to have a tracheostomy. He was sent from the PICU to the ENT ward, but since it was an adult ward I stayed with him all the time. He could not speak because his vocal chords were paralyzed, but we would watch movies and play games and laugh. Well I would laugh and he would smile. Often I would crack up at silly jokes we saw on TV or silly things he did. However, the rest of the ward must have thought a crazy woman was in this room alone and laughing at herself.  (Jamie/Feb 2012)

One day my 13 yo son Marcus (Marcus J. Van Platen Nov 18 ’82 – Nov 25 ’96), who was battling a medullablastoma, had a very, very bad headache. In desperation the doctor gave him morphine straight into his Hickman line. Within minutes the pain started subsiding and as he lay propped up against the pillows, really getting high, he laughed and remarked, “This morphiMe is nice stuff”. I’ll never forget that.  (Elise Van Platen/Feb 2012)

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