No one promised that parenting would be easy. Dave Whitfield knew his sanity would be tested when facing common obstacles like sleep deprivation, diaper blowouts, and the terrible twos. But who would imagine that parenting might involve unexpected hard things like childhood cancer? And who would anticipate a four-year-old's diagnosis just three weeks before the arrival of her younger sister, all while her energetic one-year-old brother rampages throughout her world demanding attention?

Raising a Cancer Crusher, told with candor through a father's voice, is about a couple caring for one sick kid, Ellie, and two reasonably healthy ones while juggling everyday parenting tasks and the many challenges of chemotherapy. It begins with pain and ends with gratitude, recounting a series of bumpy experiences across a 26-month treatment period. This memoir shows how joy and laughter can mix with hardship and uncertainty as Dave and his wife do whatever they can so Ellie can eventually cross the finish line having crushed her leukemia.

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