Making a wish

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About 6 weeks ago at a clinic visit the social worker came in to talk

to us and said it was about time for Josh to think about making a

wish. My heart almost stopped! I asked her should I be worried? I

always thought this was something that happened for very sick

children. She quickly reassured me that he was fine. The way the try

to do it now is to give the child the wish while they are healthy

enough to enjoy it. Josh is so excited! This past summer my husband

and I had sent off for some cruise brochures. He is my second

husband. We married when Josh was 9, even though he was around when

Josh was diagnosed at 5. Any way, we had never had any alone time

since when we married I already had 4 children. We even took them on

our honeymoon. Not because we had to, but because we wanted to.

Anyway, Josh was really getting into the cruise thing and I had to

tell him, no way would we be able to do this for the whole family. As

it was we were only looking at about 3 or 4 days.

Well Josh now wants to cruise the Caribbean! I am so glad that they

were able to offer him something that I could not. He just cant

wait!! We had freinds that cruised to Alaska for their wish. Josh

said that was too cold for him.

Has anyone else done the wish thing. If so what did you do and how

was it handled. I checked out the web site, but you cant ask any

questions of the families. Come on guys, share with us.