Panic, longing, and helplessness can accompany watching someone you love suffer while you cannot reach them. Raising an eight-month-old and a three-year-old in Florida during a mother’s cancer diagnosis creates a constant emotional strain. The need to help competes with the physical demands of early motherhood, making it feel impossible to fully be in either place. Many women experience the ongoing emotional current of caring for people nearby while holding concern for someone far away. Searching for a tangible way to comfort a sick parent leads to rejecting generic gifts and choosing chicken noodle soup, a familiar comfort associated with care and support.
"I went online looking for a way to send comfort to my mom. I found flowers and fruit baskets and candy, all thoughtful in their own way, but for this particular moment, none of it felt quite right to me. I kept thinking: What do you send someone who is sick? The answer for me was obvious: chicken noodle soup."
Read at Scary Mommy
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