“I was drowning in the most overwhelming grief I had ever felt. The denial was VERY real.”
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“I was drowning in the most overwhelming grief I had ever felt. The denial was VERY real.”
“My heart was racing. ‘Please tell me I don’t have cancer!’ I cried and punched the steering wheel. My whole world came to a screeching halt.”
“In ONE sentence, you taught your daughter to ignore someone with a disability; to ignore someone who is different.”
“I couldn’t go shopping for baby clothes or nursery furniture. I went through this alone. Then the silver lining of this crazy pandemic showed itself.”
“‘You have CHINKY eyes.’ You don’t know what this can do to a person, a child.”
“After the news, I withdrew. I felt trapped, suffocated by own body, my own thoughts. These were NOT the feelings I imagined having as a mother.”
“Parents and teens are struggling together. Teens just have a harder time expressing it.”
“The doctor told my parents, ‘If 10 was dead, your daughter is a 9.” I was making 30-40 trips to the toilet day and night.”
“My life is OVER, I’m 20 years old and expecting a baby!’ Truthfully, I thought the baby would keep us together forever.”
“We sold and gave away our belongings. We’ve been living in hotel rooms for years. I pray not just for our future home, but for the people surrounding us we haven’t met in whatever town we will live in.”