# My 6 year old daughter is not doing well. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640 "2002-12-05T04:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wildcatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@Wildcatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildcatz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/61 "2002-12-05T23:59:56Z")
**Roadwalker** , peace be with you and your family at this awful time. My thoughts are with all of you.☹ Wildcatz ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/62 "2002-12-06T00:06:10Z")
My thoughts and prayers are with you. And I’m glad you’ve enlisted the aid of hospice. I and my family have dealt with them more than once, and they really are wonderful. They do their best to make the worst of situations bearable. Lean on them (and us) when you need to. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/63 "2002-12-06T00:11:32Z")
I’m so sorry, **Roadwalker**. My thoughts and prayers are with you, your beautiful child, and your family. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/64 "2002-12-06T00:54:54Z")
Our thoughts and prayers are with you folks. We’re so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Hattrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hattrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hattrick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/65 "2002-12-06T01:09:29Z")
Hugs and love, hugs and love man! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/66 "2002-12-06T01:20:00Z")
I’m sure that you and your family are in all of our thoughts and prayers:( ☹ ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/67 "2002-12-06T01:42:28Z")
Strength and peace to you, your family, and Naomi. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/68 "2002-12-06T01:52:16Z")
Naomi & the rest of your family will be in my prayers tonight. **{{{{{Naomi Roadwalker Family}}}}}** ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/69 "2002-12-06T02:12:07Z")
God bless…I don’t know what else to say, but your little girl is in my prayers tonight and so are you. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/70 "2002-12-06T02:26:08Z")
God bless you all. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to post, and to everyoe who just reads this and shares our sorrow. I came home today to find Naomi contentedly eating a candy cane. Last night her pain was the most under control it has been ion a lone time. She is begining to realize what is happening. Her worst fear is not death, but how much she will miss us when she’s in heaven. I will post again soon. Take care everyone. Your outpouring means a lot to me. Roadwalker. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/71 "2002-12-06T02:28:40Z")
Words fail me, all I can say is best wishes–and continued courage and strength to the entire **Roadwalker** family. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/72 "2002-12-06T02:39:21Z")
_hugs_ You’re in my thoughts. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/73 "2002-12-06T06:16:41Z")
I am whole heartedly sorry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/74 "2002-12-06T06:47:57Z")
There is really nothing I can say other than to re-iterate that the hopes and prayers of this whole messageboard community are with your family right now. My email addy is in my profile - if you need someone to talk to, email me : you can call me reverse charges. I’ll say to you what my daughter just said to me when she saw my reaction to your post - please give **Naomi** a hug and a kiss from all of us; please let her know that there are people on the other side of the world who are touched by her courage and who will always remember her because we came to know her through a parent who cares SOOO much. You are an incredibly special family and I’m sure I’m not the only person who feels humbled by your sharing the ups and downs of **Naomi** ’s health with us over the last year. I so wish I could fix this. **Naomi** ’s experience of cancer made so much possible for other children. I actually can’t type anymore because I’m so busy crying - please know that you are all in our thoughts. with much love Merryl ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/75 "2002-12-06T06:54:16Z")
Awww, **Walker** , mate, damn sorry. We’re thinkin’ of y’all. I’d like to echo what **reprise** said, 'specially that middle paragraph. [sub]Shit. T’ain’t fair, life.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/76 "2002-12-07T04:15:01Z")
Naomi has slipped into a sort of very sound sleep. One she may not fully wake up from. Once in a while she whimpers and we give her a little liquid pain medicine. She is sleeping in our bed now. I didn’t know how to break this news at the same time but I feel I must. My wife is pregnent and expecting sometime in late summer. I cannot be completly misirable all the time knowing this. Obladee oblabah I guess. I’m probably in for an emotional weekend. Thanks to you all for hanging in there with me. You’re all the best. Roadwalker. ---
**Author:** ![jenex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@jenex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jenex)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/77 "2002-12-07T04:21:46Z")
Children are so innocent. My problems are smaller now. I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/78 "2002-12-07T04:45:33Z")
How sad, and how difficult. I am glad that she gets to spend her last time surrounded by your love. When he or she is old enough, your new child will be lucky to hear so many stories about how brave his/her older sister was. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/79 "2002-12-07T05:40:46Z")
I’m so sorry, Roadwalker. ☹ My prayers and thoughts are with you and your family. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640/80 "2002-12-07T06:09:52Z")
My sympathies to you and your family, Roadwalker. May you know her love stays with you always. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-6-year-old-daughter-is-not-doing-well/140640.md?page=5)