“Not willing to accept this as my new normal or wait for happiness to just HAPPEN to me, I started being honest with myself and others and decided to depend on the only person that could truly control my happiness… ME.”
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‘His diagnoses read like the a la carte menu at a restaurant. Our lives became an endless stream of acronyms.’: Mom shares 16-year journey to son’s rare SYNGAP1 diagnosis
“There, for the very first time, was Andrew’s entire diagnostic story. The decoder we’ve been searching for most of his life. Every milestone missed, every seizure suffered, every hospitalization, every moment his body betrayed him, every detail down to his clumsy gait, summarized in 12pt Times New Roman.”
‘I was still in bed when my husband burst into the room and cried, ‘Max is gone!’: Mother of son who died by suicide shares lessons learned in grief
“I’ve learned much in the two years since Max passed. We’re each doing the best we can.”
‘To the mama who is doing EVERYTHING, but feels like it’s never enough.’: Special needs mom pens open letter to parents with ‘difficult journey’
“I know this is not the parenting journey you had imagined when you chose to start a family, but it is the one you were born to do.”
‘The doctor said he was one of the most extreme cases of ADHD she had ever seen.’: Mom shares then and now of son’s journey with ADHD
“We still are learning, but we are taking this on with all we have and doing our best.”
‘Tears in my eyes, I told my husband my legs went numb while running on the treadmill.’: Mom diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis shares mental and physical health journey
“That day was about so much more than a marathon for me and my family. It was about believing in myself, loving myself, and letting others believe in me too.”
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“We are no longer shielding our kiddo from school shootings. If children his age are dying, he deserves to know what he’s up against.”
‘The raw truth was, I was going to die or get sober.’: Mom shares grueling substance abuse journey, sustained addiction recovery
“I understand what it feels like to sit in the parking lot of a liquor store waiting for the open sign to turn on. To look my heartbroken child in the face, knowing I’m at the root of that pain.”
‘I Looked To My Left And No Longer Saw My Arm.’: Teen Shares New Outlook On Life After ATV Accident
“When people came to visit me they were shocked at how positive I was. I told them that the most important thing was that I made it out alive, not my missing arm.”
‘In a year and a half, our family of 2 grew to 6.’: Couple share foster care adoption story, premature triplet birth after infertility
“Brycen didn’t know about us until two days before our first visit, to protect him from having high hopes ripped away again. He’d experienced many adults not keeping promises, so he kept questioning if we were really going to adopt him.”