“He was given the prognosis of ‘probably never being able to walk, talk, or become a productive member of society.’ What does that even mean? I can’t think of a fate worse than those cold words.”
‘I was 95% sure I was making a mistake that would forever affect my family’: Adoptive mom’s heartfelt admission of taking in a ‘high needs child’
‘We said ‘I love you’ at 13. He didn’t care I wore a wig. He found me broken and put the pieces back together.’: Woman with Hodgkin’s lymphoma falls back in love with childhood crush, conceives after infertility predictions
“I remember chunks of hair falling onto my pillow. My body transformed. It took a while to look in the mirror and see my naked face with no eyebrows, yellow eyes. Sometimes I wondered if I’d ever feel better. Then afterwards, it all hits you like a train and you sit there and literally think to yourself, ‘What the heck did I just go through and how in the world did we do it?’ Life after cancer is not easy. One side effect of chemo? Infertility.”
‘I had absolutely no idea that was the last morning I would ever clean up after him.’
“We don’t realize just how meaningful a pair of combat boots by the door really are.”
It Is Not Your Job To Be A Decoration At The Beach
“I got the idea to do this project after being inundated with multiple ads every day enticing me with photos and emojis and offers to buy their product to get a ‘beach body’ or ‘bikini body’ or ‘summer body.'”
‘One day, I finally broke. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried alone until my eyes would barely open.’
“Maybe this is just what it’s like to have three kids,” I thought. “Maybe this is my new normal.”
‘I was killing myself. I didn’t want to die’: Man loses 140 POUNDS naturally after confronting his ‘addictive personality’
“I made an appointment to have a physical done. When I saw my lab results, I knew I was in trouble.”
‘I knew I had to capture her before it was too late.’: Daughter photographs dying mother in wake of family’s ‘tremendous loss 6 months prior’
“You don’t realize how silent a room can be when one person stops breathing… it’s deafening.”
‘She said, ‘That IS you, and when you wake up, that’s what you’ll do.’: Spider-Man visits 10,000 sick children when they need him most
“The hospital said I couldn’t visit him, but the child’s mother asked me, ‘Do you work for the hospital? Or God?’ That question stopped me in my tracks. That led me to visiting my first child ever, by sneaking my suit in my backpack, changing in a bathroom close to his room, and rushing to his side.”
‘I fell to the floor and screamed’: Daughter rushes to marry in dad’s hospital room ‘while he was still with us’ after brain stroke
“I told him Taylor and I were finally married and that I knew he would be proud. At that point, I knew my dad wasn’t coming back.”
‘Lupus has given me the most self-confidence I’ve ever had.’
“I would wake up early in the morning with excruciating wrist pain, often so bad I couldn’t even lift myself out of bed.”