VIDEO: Mothers of Sick Children are True Heroines!

They say that once you become a mother, you will never be in peace again. You will always think about your child, about how can you improve his life, how can you protect and keep him safe. But for a mother of a seriously sick child, the worry doesn’t ever fade.
As a mother when you find out that you child has an illness you will be devastated, even if it’s just a simple cold the mother will try her best to cure the child as soon as possible and have him hurt as little as possible. If the child ends up in the hospital the mother can even have a break down and the more serious it gets the harder it is on the parent.
According to today.com, the SickKids Hospital in Toronto released a PSA documenting the strength of moms who are going through exactly that, literally picking themselves up off floors to prepare themselves to be tough for their kids. They did this in honor of Mother’s Day.
The entire video is based on the real life stories of five mothers and the suffering they go through every single day because they children are ill.
Jessie, whose son Everest suffered a head trauma at six months and had to have emergency neurosurgery, shown in the last scene, and Sarah, whose daughter Jamieson was born with cystic fibrosis and had surgery just after birth to clear away bowel obstructions, in the chapel.
Diane’s slide down the laundry room wall is nothing short of heartbreaking. Her son Jonathan was born with an abdominal defect, causing some of his internal organs to grow outside of his body and spent most of his first year of life at SickKids.
Hilary’s daughter, Willa, was premature and must still be fed with a feeding tube, the two still regularly visit the hospital for checkups as shown in the second-last scene. And Natasha’s daughter, Selena, who was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer of the kidneys at age five and underwent 36 weeks of chemotherapy, is shown as a silhouette in an armchair.
These heartbreaking stories exist so that people can understand two things that are highly important. The first one is the kind of help that children and parents can get at SickKids so that people could donate and make the place even better than it already is. And also make people aware of how much mothers suffer and how they they struggle to help their kids and maintain their composure and be brave for their children.
SickKids seems to get all that and even more, but perhaps it’s the scene where Sarah whispers to herself in the chapel, “She can get through it,” that is the most poignant. Because at the end of the day, it’s those kids who are the ones who are sick — and all parents can do is stand by, hold their hands and square their shoulders to face another day.

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