Rene Marsh, a CNN reporter is mourning the death of her 2-year-old son, Black who she said died of brain cancer.
Rene Marsh on Thursday shared a post on social media saying that she and husband Kedric Payne’s 2-year-old son, Blake, died on April 14 after a battle with brain cancer.
Doctors found a malignant, fast-growing tumour in the centre of Blake’s brain in December 2019, and he underwent brain surgery and chemotherapy before he was one year old.
Rene Marsh began her post, which featured sweet pics of her son, by writing about all the things baby “Blakey” taught her while he was here.
“In your 25 months on earth you taught me how much strength I had stored up in reserve that I didn’t know I had,”
she wrote. “You taught me endurance. You taught me a depth of love I have never experienced. You inspired me to keep going when I wanted to give up. You helped me prioritize what is truly important in this life.”
The journalist added that she’s “forever changed” by her son.
“I feel blessed and honored to have been your mom,” she wrote. “I wish we had more time together but I’m grateful for the time we had.”
The journalist added that she’s “forever changed” by her son.
“I feel blessed and honored to have been your mom,” she wrote. “I wish we had more time together but I’m grateful for the time we had.”
“I lost my motherhood and I’m mourning it all,” she wrote, before promising to fight “pediatric cancer for the rest of my life.”
“I will do it not just to spare other parents from this unbearable pain but I will do it to forever honor you, Blake,”
she wrote. “Your life was not in vain my sweet angel. Mommy loves you and I look forward to holding and kissing you when we meet again. 3/14/19 – 4/14/21”