The power of a mother’s prayers

I had been taking my then-3-year-old daughter, Emily Grace, to the doctor and even a specialist because I suspected something wasn’t right, but her blood work kept coming back fine. Finally, one night, she was breathing so abnormally that I brought her to the emergency room. I thought she had pneumonia. But the ER doctor knew something was really wrong.

The doctors weren’t sure how she was still breathing. I told them it must be a sign God wasn’t going to take her. I was later told that had I not gone to the emergency room, she would have died in her sleep that night.

We soon learned she had high-risk Stage 4 cancer. We were at the hospital for 78 days straight, where she had a chest tube for weeks and kept getting infections.

I prayed for her like I have never prayed before. She was on every prayer list you could imagine. I was told over and over again, “God only gives you what you can handle.” Although it was meant to be supportive, I found it to feel like a hurtful phrase, as if, because of my strength, my daughter was victimized by cancer. As an alternative, a friend told me, “God gives you what you can’t handle, so you have to rely on Him.”

My daughter is now a thriving 11-year-old. I call her my “miracle kid” because that’s what she is.

—Tara Geraghty, 40, Mary Kay business owner and creator of Making Cancer Fun, New Jersey

Robert,
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The power of a mother’s prayers

I had been taking my then-3-year-old daughter, Emily Grace, to the doctor and even a specialist because I suspected something wasn’t right, but her blood work kept coming back fine. Finally, one night, she was breathing so abnormally that I brought her to the emergency room. I thought she had pneumonia. But the ER doctor knew something was really wrong.

The doctors weren’t sure how she was still breathing. I told them it must be a sign God wasn’t going to take her. I was later told that had I not gone to the emergency room, she would have died in her sleep that night.

We soon learned she had high-risk Stage 4 cancer. We were at the hospital for 78 days straight, where she had a chest tube for weeks and kept getting infections.

I prayed for her like I have never prayed before. She was on every prayer list you could imagine. I was told over and over again, “God only gives you what you can handle.” Although it was meant to be supportive, I found it to feel like a hurtful phrase, as if, because of my strength, my daughter was victimized by cancer. As an alternative, a friend told me, “God gives you what you can’t handle, so you have to rely on Him.”

My daughter is now a thriving 11-year-old. I call her my “miracle kid” because that’s what she is.

—Tara Geraghty, 40, Mary Kay business owner and creator of Making Cancer Fun, New Jersey

Robert,
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This is a great story. I remember ladies doing a laying on of hands at my moms church for a lady diagnosed with cancer. I was skeptical about until she was retested a few weeks later and the cancer was in remission. She never did Chemotherapy nor radiation. She is still alive today at 78 years old. I am not so skeptical these days.


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