{"id":194,"date":"2010-06-20T05:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T05:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darserca.wwwmi3-ts1.a2hosted.com\/wp\/?p=194"},"modified":"2020-03-08T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T03:23:01","slug":"david-mom-please-do-not-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/2010\/06\/20\/david-mom-please-do-not-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom, please don\u2019t cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><em><a href=\"https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DawidekWSzpitalu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-195\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Dawidek - Children's Hospital in St. Louis, MO\" src=\"https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DawidekWSzpitalu-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Dawidek - Children's Hospital in St. Louis, MO\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>\u201c This diary is dedicated to my son and to the staff and<\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"op-content\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0 volunteers of the Gift from the Heart Foundation,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with love\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David is in the operating room. I still can hear him saying \u201cMom, please don\u2019t cry\u201d and see his smiling face. \u201cSure thing I won\u2019t cry\u201d, I told him. It is pretty amusing that this 8 year-old young man, my son, is giving me the courage and strength to stay calm during these difficult hours when the surgery will be performed. Those few words and his beautiful smile assure me that everything is going to be OK. Thank you David. I love you so much. It was all news to me when I found out that there is hope for children with cerebral palsy; that in America they have a treatments available to improve their conditions; treatments that were not available to my son for 8 long years in Poland. I couldn\u2019t believe our luck when David was accepted for the surgery. As scary as it was for us to arrive in America where we don\u2019t know anybody and cannot communicate in English, it was equally wonderful to know that there\u2019s Gift from the Heart Foundation that will take care of\u00a0 us that from now on \u00a0we won\u2019t be\u00a0 alone and scared.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-194 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DawidekWSzpitalu.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DawidekWSzpitalu-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave at Children&#039;s Hospital in ST. Luis, MO\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DawidKonrad.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DawidKonrad-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave and Konrad playing chess\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dawid.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/darserca.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dawid-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dave and mom Galina at O&#039;Hare\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c This diary is dedicated to my son and to the staff and \u00a0\u00a0 volunteers of the Gift from the Heart Foundation, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with love\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,246],"tags":[45,59,61,73,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darserca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}