Sheinelle Jones reveals why she took 'TODAY' show leave amid husband's cancer battle

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00:00I always hold on to hope.

00:02And I really tried to just be present.

00:06Like so when I decided to take a leave.

00:10That was why because I didn't know what tomorrow would bring.

00:15It was getting harder to

00:17be here in the morning and then you know hold up the kids

00:21and make sure he was OK.

00:23And I would meditate in the morning and I would pray as I

00:26do every morning and I was starting to feel like I didn't

00:28want to miss it.

00:30I didn't want to look back. I wanted to be strong and I

00:32wanted to look back and know that I was strong, but I didn't

00:35want to be so strong that I miss this blessing right in front

00:39of me.

00:40You know that I missed the fight that I missed the beauty in the

00:44fight that I missed just looking in his eyes because I was his

00:47oxygen sometimes I would just

00:55and so I wanted to

00:56you know, be proud of that.