Girls, dad glad to be together
While Daniel’s daughters are much like other girls their age, they have a different approach to Christmas. “They’re just happy we’re together as a family,” the 58-year-old Kelowna man says.
Daniel spent years searching for answers to his health questions, and was hit with the ultimate reality check when it finally arrived: latestage prostate cancer.
It was around that time his wife left him. Even with surgery, radiation and hormone therapies, his prognosis was still bleak. He didn’t expect to have many more Christmases with Beth and Amanda. It is only a “miracle from God” that he lives and breathes today, he says.
Raising his girls, but unable to work, the cancer forced Daniel to the Central Okanagan Community Food Bank. His is just one family you can help this year by donating to Be an Angel. All money benefits the food bank.
Without it, Daniel said, many in our communities would be worse off.
“It has nothing to do with your education or your background,” he says. “It can happen to anybody . . . . You’re giving life to somebody who really needs it.”
Thanks to the help he received in Kelowna, Daniel and his girls Beth, 5, and Amanda, 8, are looking forward to Christmas.
Of course, gifts are secondary for them these days.
“It doesn’t hit you until you’re there,” Daniel says. “It’s your family that matters. It’s time together that is the real gift.”
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