“I was about to move out, but I found out I was pregnant. I was running on fumes. I felt like I’d made a huge mistake becoming a mom. I wasn’t good at this. I drank to cope. My marriage ended explosively. I finally decided enough was enough when my daughter started copying everything I do. She reached for my beer, and I remember deciding, it was time to be done. For good. That was 8 months ago.”
‘She may never walk again,’ my doctor said. ‘Like hell,’ I thought. I was 17. I’d been in a car accident.’: Single mom overcomes crippling car accident, alcoholism, daughter’s autism diagnosis, says ‘don’t count yourself out’
‘My friend said, ‘I’m so tired.’ I asked her, what did you do today? She replied with, ‘Nothing. I did nothing today.’
“I heard about her day. She got up early, made her husband breakfast, made him his lunch, dropped the kids off, rocked the baby to sleep, did the grocery shopping, cooked dinner, bathed the kids, fed the dogs, and when I called, she was folding laundry. I said, ‘Wow you’re right, you did do nothing.'”
‘We just don’t know right now. We will have to wait and see.’ WHAT?!? In less than 24 hours, my sweet, active, PERFECT baby boy was paralyzed from the neck down.’
“As the doctor was trying to tell me it was ‘just a virus,’ I looked at her and said, ‘But he can’t move.’ She suddenly stopped and looked at him a little closer. After prompting him, he still did not move. I saw the panic rush across her face. My entire world collapsed in front of me.”
‘I knew something was very wrong by the way the doctor was acting. The police came, and I couldn’t understand what was going on. Why were they there?’
“They wouldn’t let me fly with her, and looking back, I now know it’s because they didn’t know who had hurt her.”
‘I’ve debated on this post for a while but I’ve decided I’d show the hard parts of the aftermath of giving birth, and the ultimate sacrifice mothers make from day one.’
“Don’t ever discredit a mother. You don’t know the half. No one told me your belly doesn’t go down immediately. No one told me I’d be bleeding out.”
‘What the F*+k?’ He yelled. ‘Make her walk. That’s what is wrong with kids today.’: Father teaches ‘two grown men’ important lesson after they attacked his daughter diagnosed with brain tumor
“When I crossed the street carrying her – she can’t walk without the use of her walker – a man yelled at me from 30 feet away. I got inches from his face, with my daughter in my arms, and quietly asked him if he was referring to my daughter. ‘Hell yes,’ he said.”
‘I’ve enjoyed a privilege that most women won’t. I’ve never been scared to walk alone at night.’
“There’s a really big conversation happening in the world right now; and it’s an important one.”
‘I was overwhelmed with pride for my son’: Dad suffering from ALS miraculously walks at son’s Air Force graduation to congratulate him
“There isn’t a more poignant moment in my lifetime. We made it, and it was a miracle.”
‘The spring weather has awakened mom’: Daughter learns to cherish delightful morning with dementia-suffering mom
“I realize what a gift this moment is. The gift of time, time with my mom. I soon realize this is one of the most beautiful mornings I can remember.”
