“‘The risks are too great. You should just live with what you have left.’ I still felt in my heart this was something I needed to do.”
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“‘The risks are too great. You should just live with what you have left.’ I still felt in my heart this was something I needed to do.”
“There were blue-black marks everywhere. One never truly knows how fragile life is until you nearly lose it.”
“I’d walk my dog and people would scream things out of their car windows. I even lost out on job opportunities because I did not ‘look’ the part. It was time to do something.”
“I felt judged by medical professionals. They thought it was my fault she hadn’t seen a doctor yet in her 2 years of life. We’re all she has.”
“The truth is there’s never a good time to become a foster parent, because there’s never a good time to sign up to have your heart broken.”
“’You don’t deserve this pain. Not only that, you don’t deserve anything which has been done to you to cause this pain.’ I believed her.”
“I had a giant cage-looking contraption on my leg 75% of the time. The names and whispers echoed through the hallways. The pain took its toll on me.”
“I sat in the car after carrying a kicking and screaming Luca, who yelled, ‘Help Me! Listen to me! I don’t like you!’ clawing at my arms and pulling my hair as we passed a security guard.”
“I didn’t want to lay in bed for the rest of my life and give in to the depression. I still had life to live.”
“It all started with his stomach hurting. We thought it was just acid, or reflux. He looked at me and said, ‘What if it’s cancer?’ My mind went numb.”