On Sunday we celebrate Mother's Day in Spain and during the month of May it will be celebrated in several countries around the world. It is a day to honor all mothers and highlight their very important work as caregivers and providers of the greatest love there can be: that of a mother to a child.
But today we want to focus on very special mothers and fathers, those of sick children. Mothers with capital letters that show every day his strength and his unconditional love. To honor them, SickKids Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to children's health, created an ad that in just 90 seconds it reaches us straight to the heart.
Having a sick child is a very difficult situation to assimilate, one of the toughest tests that can give us life. We refer to premature babies or babies born with any complications, children with chronic conditions, or serious illnesses, such as cancer.
They are women who live a motherhood that did not expect to live, with long hospital stays and medical tests that become part of everyday life. They are mothers who cry in silence, who feel dejected and frustrated at the bad news, who collapse in solitude.
But despite all the difficulties, they are also mothers who get up every day, they wipe the tears from their eyes and stand up to adversities. Women who always have a smile on their mouth and words of love to comfort their sick children. Without a doubt, true fighters.
Mothers who ask for nothing
The one you see above is the spot launched by the organization last year. This year they wanted to emphasize another virtue of the mothers of sick children, who do not ask or want anything: nothing but your children get well.
Also parents
For Father's Day, last year they have also paid tribute to the strength of parents who face a child's illness every day.
Without going any further, yesterday we published an interview with María Teresa Robles, mother of a child with Down syndrome who has leukemia, who told us about her experience. If any of you is living this situation, from here our love and support to all those moms and dads of sick children.
