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27/11/2025

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27/11/2025

The Fear of Hospitals After Cancer 🏥

There is a fear that nobody warns you about…
The fear that follows you long after the treatments end, long after the machines go silent, long after the world thinks you’re “okay.”

The fear of hospitals.

For cancer parents and families, hospitals are not just buildings.
They are memories memories filled with needles, scans, sleepless nights, beeping monitors, rushed footsteps, and prayers whispered through tears.

Walking into a hospital after cancer feels like your body remembers everything before your mind does.
Your heart speeds up.
Your hands shake a little.
Your chest gets tight.
Because you’ve had moments inside those walls that changed your entire life.

You remember the doctors’ faces.
You remember the smell of sanitizer.
You remember sitting in waiting rooms, afraid of the news that could come through those doors.
You remember watching someone you love fighting for their life while you had no control.

And even if it’s just a simple appointment…
Even if it’s not serious…
A part of you still feels like you’re stepping back into the storm you barely survived.

Hospitals hold the weight of every fear you’ve ever felt.
Every bad news.
Every silent prayer.
Every moment you had to be brave when you were breaking inside.

For me from 2021 to 15 September 2025 hospitals became a second home I never wanted.
I learned how to stay strong for my daughter.
I learned how to hide my fear to protect her heart.
I learned how to be both her caregiver and her comfort, even when my own world was shaking.
And in those years, the hospital became the place where I loved her the hardest… and also the place where my heart broke the loudest.

That kind of history doesn’t disappear.

So if a cancer parent becomes quiet when you mention a hospital…
If they avoid it…
If they look uncomfortable…
If they overthink every appointment…

Please understand it’s not dramatic.
It’s trauma.
It’s memory.
It’s love.

To every parent who flinches at the smell of a hospital, who feels their heart tighten at the sight of medical rooms you are not alone.
Your feelings are valid.
Your fear is real.
And your strength is incredible.

💟From Stargirl Light
Honoring the children we lost, supporting the families still healing, and speaking the truths the world rarely sees

24/11/2025

24/11/2025

Sprinkling a little purple magic on your timeline… may your day be gentle and full of tiny wins.💜✨️

23/11/2025

🌟 When Cancer Steals the Innocence of Life 🌟

There is a kind of pain that families touched by cancer know too well a pain that is hard to explain, yet impossible to forget.
It’s the way cancer doesn’t end with treatment.
It doesn’t end when the hospital visits stop.
It doesn’t end when people say, “Just be strong.”

Cancer leaves behind a shadow that follows you everywhere.
Because the truth is…
Cancer takes away the innocence of normal life.

Before cancer, we lived with simple beliefs:
A flu was just a flu.
A stomach bug was just something that would pass.
A headache meant rest, not danger.

But after cancer, the whole world feels different.
A cough can shake you.
A fever can unlock old memories you wish you could forget.
A small pain can pull you right back to the nights you begged God to save your child.

You start reading every symptom like someone who has survived a war.
You start hearing fear in sounds other people don’t even notice.
Your heart reacts faster than your mind because you have lived through the worst, and your body remembers everything.

People see the outside strength, but they don’t see the inside storms:
The way your chest tightens when your child says, “Mommy, I don’t feel well.”
The way your mind instantly goes to the darkest place.
The way even happiness sometimes feels fragile like something that can be taken without warning.

Cancer didn’t just hurt our loved ones.
It hurt us, the families who loved them with everything we had.
It changed our breathing, our thinking, our sleeping, our praying.
It made us grow emotional muscles we never wanted.
It made us carry fears we cannot put down.

Even when we smile… the trauma is still there.
Even when life moves forward… a part of us stays in the past.
Because you can’t go through cancer and return to who you were before.
It changes your entire definition of “normal.”

And for the families who have lost someone like I lost my daughter the fear becomes something else.
It becomes a wound that teaches you how fragile life is.
It becomes a memory that shatters you at the smallest sign of sickness in someone you love.
It becomes a reminder that nothing is guaranteed, and everything is precious.

So to every family touched by cancer:
I see you.
I feel you.
I understand your silence, your fears, your sudden triggers, your overthinking.
None of it is weakness.
All of it is love.

You carry a strength born from heartbreak, and a courage nobody sees.
And even in the fear, you keep showing up.
You keep loving.
You keep hoping.

That is bravery.
That is survival.
That is the quiet heroism cancer families live with every single day.

From Stargirl Light 💜✨️
In honor of our angels.
In support of our survivors.
In love with every family living through the unspoken trauma cancer leaves behind.

19/11/2025

💜 Palliative Care: A Journey of Love, Courage & Gentle Hands 💜

Palliative care is one of the hardest topics to talk about yet it is one of the most important.
Many people hear the word and think it means “the end,” or that hope has disappeared.
But the truth is this:

Palliative care is not giving up.
It is giving more more comfort, more dignity, more love.

I learned this in the most painful, personal way.

When my daughter was fighting cancer, we eventually reached a point where her body was tired. The treatments were heavy, and the pain came in waves I wished I could take for her. I remember sitting beside her, watching her strength, her bravery, her light…

And it was palliative care that helped us hold on to the moments that mattered.

✨ Palliative care gave her comfort when her body was exhausted.
✨ It gave her a chance to smile on days she should have been crying.
✨ It gave us time precious, meaningful, gentle time.
✨ It allowed me to be her mother first, not just her nurse, her fighter, her protector.

People think palliative care means letting go.
But for us, it meant holding her closer.

It wasn’t about counting the days.
It was about filling the days with love.

Palliative care focuses on pain relief, emotional support, and bringing dignity to a journey that is often full of fear and uncertainty. It is a team that steps in when everything feels heavy, reminding families that comfort is a form of hope — a different kind of hope, but still hope.

For parents like me, who have watched their child battle a serious illness, palliative care becomes a safe place.
A place where suffering is softened.
A place where the child’s voice is heard.
A place where families are supported, guided, and held.

My daughter’s journey taught me that palliative care is not about death it is about living, even in fragile moments.
It is about giving children moments they deserve: laughter, stories, warm hands, peaceful sleep, and love that surrounds them like a blanket.

And for us who remain, it becomes part of our healing too.

As grieving mothers, as caregivers, as families walking this road we carry memories shaped by love, not by fear.

🌟 Let us continue raising awareness.
Let us support families who are choosing comfort and compassion for their loved ones.
Let us remind the world that palliative care is a gift a final act of love. 🌟

18/11/2025

💜✨ UPDATE ON SHALOM’S SURGERY ✨💜

Today my heart is full.
Shalom came out of surgery successfully, and even after everything she has been facing, she came out in good spirit.
Tired, yes… but awake, aware, and still holding that quiet strength that has carried her this far.

When the doctors confirmed she was stable, it felt like the whole room could breathe again.
She has walked through so much, and today she overcame another mountain.

To everyone who donated, shared the appeal, prayed silently, prayed loudly, or simply held her in your thoughts you were part of this miracle.
Your kindness gave her mother hope and placed Shalom in a circle of love and support.

Her healing journey continues, but today we pause and say:
“Thank you, God. Thank you, community. Thank you for keeping her safe.”

💜 From Stargirl Light – standing with every child and every family walking through the darkest valleys 💜

17/11/2025

🌟 Children & Cancer: The Pain We Don’t Talk About Enough 💜

Childhood cancer is one of the hardest truths in this world a truth most people avoid, deny, or don’t understand until it happens in their own home.
But for some of us… it wasn’t a story we read online.
It was our life.
It was our child.
It was our battle.

Cancer in children doesn’t come with warnings.
There is no preparation.
No manual.
No time to breathe.

One day you are packing school lunches and laughing at silly jokes…
and the next day you are sitting in a hospital corridor, praying for a miracle you didn’t know you needed.

Childhood cancer is real.
Not rare enough.
Not talked about enough.
Not understood enough.

And yet, every child deserves to be seen.
Every symptom deserves to be taken seriously.
Every parent deserves to know the signs before it’s too late.

💜 The emotional reality many don’t see

People see a sick child.
But they don’t see the mother holding her breath through every test result.
They don’t see the father trying to be strong while breaking inside.
They don’t see siblings quietly suffering because the home they knew has changed forever.

People see bravery.
But they don’t see the nights a child cries because the pain is too much.
The moments they’re tired of needles, tired of machines, tired of being strong when all they want is their old life back.
The way their little body fights harder than most adults ever will.

People see awareness months.
But they don’t see the children who never made it to the next month.
The empty bed.
The unfinished dreams.
The parents who now live with a forever silence.

💜 Signs we must never ignore

These symptoms look innocent that’s what makes childhood cancer so dangerous:

Unexplained fevers

Constant tiredness

Sudden weight loss

Bruising that doesn’t make sense

Persistent pain, especially at night

Swollen lymph nodes

Headaches with vomiting

Changes in vision

Lumps or swelling

Most of us never knew these signs.
Most of us thought, “It’s just flu… it’s just growing pains… it’s nothing serious.”
And while sometimes that’s true, sometimes it isn’t.
And that difference can save a life.

💜 Why this matters to me

I share this because I walked this journey with my daughter.
I watched her fight like a warrior.
I saw her strength outshine the pain.
I saw her smile even on days when life felt too heavy for her small body.
And I saw how awareness or the lack of it changes everything.

This is not just “a topic” for me.
It is a mission born from love, loss, and truth.
It is the light my daughter left behind…
A light I now carry forward through Stargirl Light Know the Truth About Cancer.

💜 Let’s stand together

Don’t scroll past childhood cancer awareness posts.
Don’t avoid the conversations because they are painful.
Don’t look away because it’s uncomfortable.

Talking about it saves lives.
Awareness changes outcomes.
Love gives families strength when the world is falling apart.

If you’re reading this…
you’re part of the mission.
You’re part of the hope.
You’re part of the light.
💜✨

14/11/2025

💜 COMMUNITY SUPPORT APPEAL – HELP SHALOM 💜

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting families affected by serious illness, Stargirl Light – Know The Truth About Cancer is sharing this urgent medical appeal on behalf of Shalom’s family.

Shalom is currently admitted at Johannesburg Hospital and urgently needs R10,000 so the doctors can proceed with her amputation surgery. Her mother, Ndakadashe Shumba, is doing everything she can, but they need support during this critical time.

To assist:
📱 EcoCash / E-Wallet / Mukuru / WorldRemit
☎️ Contact for donations & information:

WhatsApp: +263 78 389 6440

SA Calls: +27 60 304 4582

🙏 For transparency, the hospital receipt has been included in this post.

📸 Photo shared with family permission.

Even if you are unable to assist financially, kindly share this post so it can reach more people who may be able to help.

💜 Thank you for standing with families in need.
Stargirl Light – Know The Truth About Cancer

08/11/2025

🌟 The Power of Community Support 🌟

Cancer is not just a medical journey it’s an emotional, physical, and spiritual one.
And no one should ever have to walk that path alone.

Community support is one of the most powerful forms of healing. It’s the invisible medicine that doesn’t come in a bottle, but in kindness, time, and presence.

It’s found in the people who show up
💜 The friend who checks in, even when they don’t know what to say.
💜 The neighbor who drops off food because they know you’ve had a long day at the hospital.
💜 The church member who prays quietly for your strength.
💜 The stranger who sends a message that reminds you that your story still matters.

When my daughter was sick, I realized that true community is not measured by numbers, but by hearts.
The smallest act of love a visit, a call, a smile can hold more healing power than words can describe.
There were moments when exhaustion tried to break me, but a message from someone who cared gave me strength to keep going.

Families facing cancer often feel forgotten once the diagnosis becomes old news. But that’s when community matters most.
Because when you show up for someone in pain, you’re not just giving comfort you’re giving them hope.

Let’s be that kind of community.
Let’s be the light that stays when others walk away.
Together, we can make this journey less lonely, one heart at a time. 💜

03/11/2025

💜 Happy 13th Birthday, Shalom 💜

Today we celebrate not just another year of life, but the incredible strength and courage of a young warrior who continues to inspire us all.

Shalom, your journey reminds the world that cancer doesn’t define a child their light, laughter, and will to live do. You’ve shown us what true bravery looks like: facing pain with a smile and holding on to hope when it’s hardest to find.

Your story speaks for every child fighting silently, every parent praying endlessly, and every heart that believes healing can come in many forms.

At Stargirl Light, we honor you today a true symbol of courage, love, and unshakable hope. Keep shining, beautiful girl. The world sees your light. 💜✨