I am destroyed. My precious angel is dying. [View all]

[Tanuki]

She is only 10 years old, my goddaughter's darling little girl and she is as precious to me as if she were my own. Two days ago she was diagnosed with a horrible and invariably fatal brain cancer: Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. She will probably die within 9 months. I am heartbroken and can't stop bawling and at times howling like a wounded animal when I am alone. I am praying for a miracle and hope you will too if you are the praying type, and even if you aren't I know DUers have compassionate hearts and we can count on many kind thoughts for healing. I keep saying that there was once a child who was the first ever to be cured of leukemia, and now just look at how many survive and go on to live normal, happy lives. So maybe she can be the first to walk away from DIPG. It is just probably a fluke of nature, a tiny random gene sequencing blip. I thought there was nobody to blame, but then I thought of this. DIPG (in 48 hours I have come to learn) is rare, with only 200 to 300 new cases in the U.S. per year, so no drug company will bother looking for a cure. Dedicated researchers are nonetheless doing all they can to study and defeat it. And then I thought of this....St. Jude's Hospital is exactly the kind of place that is in the forefront of this type of research, and Donald Fucking Trump skimmed nearly a million dollars off of donations that people made in good faith to Eric Fucking Trump's "Foundation," buying into the lie that there would be little or no overhead to the fundraisers because they were using "donated" family resources. This is not a new revelation, and I myself have previously posted at least two or three times condemning what they did, namely line their pockets and wallow in their obscene wealth at the expense of pediatric cancer patients. But today it's personal. That nearly-a-million dollars would have gone a long way to find the cure to the cursed disease that will kill my darling little angel, and those of so many others who are in the same abject misery as I am today at the prospect of such a devastating loss. Fuck you Donald Trump....give back the nearly-a-million dollars you stole from sick and dying children. Fuck you too, Franklin Graham, for knowingly accepting ill-gotten cash bribes from this polluted POS and then anointing him as "God's chosen."