Before I even knew I had breast cancer… I was blessed with a grandson who is blind.
When he was only a year old I would be holding him and he would lay his head or hand on my left breast (every time I held him) we laughed it off… he would never lay his head or hand on my right breast.
While he was doing this, he had sadness in him that I really didn’t understand at first, he made me feel the lump there by his actions; I would have never even checked. Well after I had the cancer removed, he stopped avoiding my right breast.
Today (he is 3 now) at the Relay for Life he was running around having fun and when it came time for the survivors to lead the walk, he asked me to hold him and would not go with anyone else! So I held him and told him he could be with me. He laid his head on my shoulder the whole walk. As we got about half way around the track they started playing “Your My Hero” and Dylan picked his head up and faced me and said “Nana your my hero” and had a tear in his eye.
Well what puzzles me is, how a 3 year old knew what this was about! To all of a sudden want me to hold and walk with him just then (we were there all day!). First of all, I really think this blind baby is gifted some how, he knew I had cancer before anyone else, and to be 3yrs old and understand what today was about, the older kids didn’t understand…
There is a lot more that has happened with this baby but these two times really freaked me out! I know I have a gifted child from God! After the walk I handed him to Papa and you can see for yourself the tears.
—Shelly Montgomery
Thank you for sharing your story with us Shelly.