When Joseph and LeaAnn Falabella lost their 9-year-old daughter, Alexandra, to pediatric cancer in 2009, the Plainview couple searched for meaning amongst all the heartache. Though grieving their immense loss, they found a way to honor their daughter’s memory and keep her spirit alive as an inspiration for others. Read More
Only a grieving parent can understand what it is to be “drowning in grief”. You feel like you’re in a pit of quicksand and as it closes in on you there is no getting out. You can’t breath, you can’t pull yourself up, you have no strength as you lay their wishing that it will […]
You know what’s the hardest part? Being present. We are all busy people. I work full time, I have a beautiful 3 1/2 year old son Chase, who tries to consume my every single free second, and I volunteer as a board member for The Lexiebean Foundation to help other children with cancer. I like […]
There is no such thing as closure. We never close this part of our life, the part of losing a child. It molds us forever. *Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child You learn so much when you speak with other bereaved parents. Every single one of them is going through the same pain, […]
Tanner was 3 years, 5 months and 13 days old when he passed away. From the time of his diagnosis (22 months) on, we lived a new “normal”… normal was weekly trips for chemo, radiation, blood draws, physicals, scans… counters full of medications, injections and constant living on edge – watching him, nervously, for any […]
Mother’s day is my favorite holiday. I don’t celebrate my birthday really, aside from a little cake, which is more for Chase than it is for me. I don’t like to celebrate my birthday…. Not because I don’t like getting older, but because getting older is a privilege denied to so many children, like my […]
How is it even possible. How have I continued to wake up for 2 years… 24 months… 730 days…17,520 hours without my son… It has been too long since I touched his face, kissed his beautiful mouth, felt his sweet breath on my face, felt his sweet hand in mine. And, every minute that I […]
April 13th, 2013 Start Time: 8:00am Location: Citi Field 126-01 Roosevelt Ave Flushing, NY 11368 Lexie’s Legs will participate in the Tri-State NY Spartan Sprint at Citi Field. If you wish to join this race, please email runners@lexiebeanfoundation.org.
April 5, 2013 Time: 7:30pm – 12:30am Location: Leonard’s of Great Neck 555 Northern Boulevard Great Neck, NY 11021 Helping ease the financial and emotional burdens that childhood cancer places upon a family, while providing comfort to children as they cope with the extended hospital stays, often associated with their illness. The Lexiebean Foundation supplies […]
It’s been a long month, this past March. Which is funny, because April is always a hard month for me, being Tanner’s angelversary. But this March was particularly tough…. and with no real concrete reason. Easter usually puts me on the edge of sanity, being that Tanner passed on Easter Monday. I always think about […]
