A Time For Courage

Imagine the emotional trauma you, as a parent, would experience if you found out your child was diagnosed with cancer. Immediately, you would be faced with making many medical decisions for your sick child. Treatment, would however, be only a part of the help your child and family would so desperately need. Cancer, when it strikes, doesn't care that, lives and jobs need to be juggled: that you have responsibilities to other children: that your expenses soar because you have to travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles to be with or seek treatment for your sick child. Cancer, doesn’t care about any of these things. Thanks Jordan does. For all these reasons, and so many more, that's why we're here. for·ti·tude () n. : Strength of mind or soul that allows one to endure pain or adversity PATIENTLY with CONSTANT ENDURING COURAGE. Fortitude may be termed ENDURING COURAGE; it is that quality which is able not merely to endure pain or trial, but steadily to confront dangers that cannot be actively opposed, or against which one has no adequate defense.