“While I understand Halloween is about fear, and scaring, the night itself is very exclusive to a certain demographic of children.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Flashing lights would induce a seizure causing them to fall and possibly suffer life altering damage to themselves.’ Mom creates Sensory Sensitive Trick-or-Treating after growing up in foster care watching kids ‘struggle’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was 14 when I gave birth. It’s not every day you’re sitting in a waiting room with a 14-year-old mom, with her baby’s oxygen tank on her back.’
“I was a cheerleader, swimmer and honor roll student who attended church every week. On the outside I looked like your average kid.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘You can tell me to screw off BUT it’s pouring, my daughter was supposed to have senior pictures outside. She’s in a wheelchair; can we come inside and take some pics?’
“After getting inside we were greeted with hot chocolates (made with soy milk because they were unsure of allergies… who thinks that far into it?”
By LJ Herman -
‘People don’t understand how important it is to NOT park on the blue/yellow lines’: Mother of child with special needs urges others to respect handicap parking rules
“We run into the issue of someone parking in the blue lines or placing their shopping cart on the lines and blocking our ramp about 1-2 times per week.”
By LJ Herman -
‘She kept saying: Come on Ms. Helma! You can do it!’ Teacher CARRIES student with cerebral palsy on her back during class hike on camping trip
“She was encouraging me! Giving me little neck massages when she saw I was struggling. She made up songs for us to sing. She sang a song when I was really sweating.”
By LJ Herman -
‘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’
“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.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was raped by my pastor and got pregnant’: Despite cerebral palsy, strokes and Crohn’s disease, this mother-daughter duo are determined to ‘inspire’ and ‘be grateful’
“All the people who doubted us, you underestimated us.”
By LWM Staff -
‘I just couldn’t breathe’: Wheelchair-bound groom loses himself seeing his ‘heart and soul’ walk down the aisle
“I’ve never seen anything so stunning. My everything that was and everything to be, looking absolutely breathtaking. I couldn’t help but lose myself in emotion.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Babies don’t have strokes! Or so we thought.’ Mom warns of son’s pediatric stroke in the womb, wasn’t aware until he was 6 months old
“It was a massive stroke. Big enough to kill a grown man. It was horrifying. This could not be happening to us.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘His life isn’t going to be what you planned’: Mom receives long-term diagnosis after meningitis
“He had meningitis. He started having seizures.”
By LJ Herman -
