Episode 366: It Was Never About the Grief - Ben's Mom

Losing a Child: Always Andy's Mom · Sep 17, 2026 · 1h

When Ben was in treatment, he had a signature move.

He would flip on some music, put on his headphones, and check out. Not in a sad way. In the way of a boy who had discovered, long before anyone taught him the term music therapy, that sound could carry him somewhere the chemo could not reach. He was five years old when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. He was eight when he died. And in between, he wore a Michael Jackson curly wig and a sparkly glove to the grocery store, demanded Olive Garden in Times Square after immunotherapy, and once stood up on a procedure table before a bone marrow…