SUPER MOM: CATHY SHIN
By: Binh Wilson The walls of the doctors office were a tribute to irony, considering the current situation. Posters of happy children and smiling faces covered every inch of the walls, yet the faces of Cathy and Shige Shin was anything but. With the tension of the room palpable, sounds of little Noah playing Cut the Rope on the iPad was barely enough to cover the blanket of silence. The sound of the door opening was a relief in and of itself, but that relief was short lived as it was replaced with a flood of confusion as almost 6 people, all wearing lab coats, entered straight faced. Not a single smile among them. “Mr. and Mrs Shin, the test results are back and there seems to be a rather troubling
issue we found with your sons blood” said their doctor bluntly. And it was with that sentence alone that Cathy knew to expect the worst. As if all the TV dramas and sitcoms she has watched were becoming true right before her eyes. In short order she was explained the whole situation and was unable to feel anything beyond shock. Noah, her 3 year old son, had cancer. Cathy Shin is the model modern age mom. Juggling work and family like an old pro, you would never guess that she’s only been a parent for an odd 6 years. Going from a day at the office, to picking up her oldest from preschool, all to come home and cook for
her husband and youngest son Noah. She’s done a good job in the corporate world as it is too. Holding a junior marketing position in a fairly young biotech company called Intellicyt. Cathy’s a working mother who was plenty prepared when she had her first son Makoto. The tolls of a first child barely phased her and she made it through the toughest years of infant motherhood without a scratch. And since younger children are always the easier of the two, the decision for another child was a no
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