What do you do when your child is diagnosed with cancer, and how does it reveal your life's purpose?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Melissa Wiggins - Mum, Wife, Boss.

Timestamps
3:05 - That moment when it changed.
5:30 - "I gave birth to the twins in one wing of the hospital while my husband sat with our son having cancer surgery in the other."
8:58 - At what point did you realize that there weren't the kind of pediatric treatments that were available to kids?
9:39 - "And they said he has a 50/50 chance."
11:00 - Did you always refuse to take no for an answer?
15:30 - "I think finding your roar — becoming a mumma bear — is learning to let go of the opinions of other people."
17:25 - #nomoreoptions
19:30 - "I stood in front of the machine and I said, 'You can go get your lawyer I'll just wait.'"
22:20 - "Research is the one thing that we need more innovation in."
26:35 - "I have pictures of signs saying, 'Not this year. We're fighting cancer.'"
30:10 - "He doesn't have hearing, and he doesn't have the ability to naturally father a child because of choices I made for him."
34:00 - "We're doing an injustice to the kids who didn't make it because we're not showing what it really looks like if you do survive."
38:53 - "How can I add a little piece of family every day?"
40:00 - A cameo appearance as a mom is better than a starring role.
44:50 - Adopting Charlie.
47:38 - "Delegation is a skill."
50:05 - "If you want to adopt and you want to bond successfully with that child you did not birth...then you have to be able to put something else second for awhile."
53:44 - "That's the hardest thing I've ever done. Being with a 2 year old that I didn't know for 24/7."

Links
https://www.instagram.com/mummabearwiggins_/
https://www.facebook.com/CKcmelissawiggins83
https://cannonballkidscancer.org/