I wish to have a harp
Nadia
12
cancer
Nadia's wish for a harp helps create the soundtrack for her future
“I was laying in the bed pretending to be asleep when I heard my parents talking to the oncology doctor,” said Nadia. “I knew it couldn’t be good.”
“No one expected cancer,” said Tami, Nadia’s mother. “The doctor was astonished, and we went straight from surgery to oncology that day.”
For the next six months, Nadia had chemotherapy every week which luckily seemed to work.
“I was done with chemotherapy and everything in early February 2020 and was excited to hang out with friends and do things again and then COVID hit,” said Nadia.
Nadia had spent the previous six months isolated and masked to protect her during chemotherapy. And now she would find herself having to do the same thing to protect herself from the pandemic.
“I had already talked to my wish granters about wishing to go to Australia but when COVID hit, they started talking to me about another wish. I wished for a new harp.”
Nadia had been playing the harp seriously for more than four years, after finding a lap harp of her sisters and falling in love with the instrument. She was about to graduate to a pedal harp when her cancer diagnosis hindered her progress.
Her wish, for a pedal harp, would allow her to advance both her music and her sense of confidence.
“I saw it almost immediately, this sense of confidence and a chance to explore songs that are harder to play,” said Tyson, Nadia’s father.
Her joy for her wish is something the family can embrace as well.
“This harp will forever remind her of her journey and the fact that she made it through,” said Tyson.