“I remember laying there I don’t know if I was conscious or not and I thought have I achieved all I want to achieve yet? Have I done everything in life I wanted to? Was I ready to leave the world yet?”
‘Every time I went to sleep I wasn’t sure if it would be my last night or not.’: Dad donates kidney to 27-year-old daughter in ‘crazy’ and ‘daunting’ experience
‘I’ve been a size 0, and I’ve been a size 12. I was the saddest at my smallest, and the happiest at my biggest.’ Mom declares she’s FINALLY ‘so dang content with who I am’
“I’m coming if chips and salsa and good times are involved, like you it’s going down for real, and I’m not going to feel guilty one bit the next day.”
‘Peyton has 2nd degree chemical burns from his light up shoes.’
“On June 24th, his shoes got wet. He returned home that night and told me his feet hurt.”
10 things that helped when my son told me he had depression
“This time two years ago, my teenage son walked into my room and simply asked, ‘Mom, can we talk?'”
‘Who would have thought just one tick bite at least 4 years ago started this all?’
“Had we caught it within the first month or two of being bitten, a cure would have been possible.”
Teacher dad goes from ‘Shamu’ to SUPER JACKED ‘to be the father my daughter deserves’
“Would I be able to walk my daughter down the aisle? Would I see them graduate from high school? It was time for a change!”
‘There’s this thing called a ‘Dad Bod.’ But tell me– where is the talk about ‘Mom Bods?”
“I know you’ve seen it too; idolized in pop culture and on commercials…”
‘Having 2 brothers with Down syndrome is far from disabling’: From ‘humiliation’ to ‘compassion,’ sister’s says her special needs siblings ‘teach us more than we teach them’
“When I was 14, my parents surprisingly had another child with Down syndrome. My mother went through a year of emotional breakdown. She felt humiliated.”
‘When you have to pee and all of the sudden you’re holding your child.’
“The final push ended up happening on the toilet after my midwife suggested emptying my bladder, and while sitting there a contraction came, so I gave a push and out came his head!”
‘I almost stepped on a rattlesnake! But, my hero puppy saved me.’
“Todd got bit saving me. He was yelping right away.”
