“Two days prior to the wedding, the doctors told us it would be best for him to stay in the hospital to heal. It crushed all of us. My dad has dreamt of the day he would be able to walk one of his daughters down the aisle in his barn.”
‘We decided if Dad couldn’t make the wedding, we’d bring it to him.’: Daughter has hospital wedding so father can attend
‘She said, ‘Would you rather not be here, or have your daughter eat formula if necessary? She needs mama here.’: Mom’s near-death experience with sepsis
“If you had waited another day, I think you’d be dead,’ my doctor said. At that point, I realized how serious this was. I had put it off, trying to fight how I felt with Tylenol.”
‘We had to accept the severity of what was done by her ex. A DHS worker pointed out her behavior. The walls she built cracked.’: Family struggles to overcome epilepsy, Crohn’s disease and sexual assault
”’I was supposed to be the sick one,’ I thought. When I sat at a grocery store with Caitlin seizing on the floor, and the 2-year-old in the cart, we truly had to come to grips with our limitations.”
Motherhood Ruined Me
“In the absolute best way possible. And I wouldn’t change it, I wouldn’t change me. Not for the world.”
To My Dearest Son On The Anniversary Of Your Death
“You taught me not to sweat the small stuff in life.”
‘Someone I loved had been expertly lying to me for the entire length of our relationship.’: After experiencing infidelity, woman says ‘once you’ve recognized the true capacity of the pain, it gives you the power to create something beautiful out of it’
“I woke up every morning thinking maybe it was just a sick joke. All at once, I was with a stranger instead of the person I thought I knew so well.”
‘There’s this stigma attached to parenting that for some reason, makes people think they’ll lose themselves when they have kids.’
“As if it’s going to change who they are. Some people plan it. Some people fall into it. And some people avoid it simply because they think they’re not ready.”
To The Girl Who Changed My World In 4 Minutes And 51 Seconds
“You had already decided this would be your final surgery. You had courageously fought cancer once, and came out victorious on the other side, only to have the cancer return with a vengeance.”
After 13 Years Of Marriage And A Tragic Accident, My Wife Forgot Who I Was
“She had no memory of our wedding. We renewed our wedding vows surrounded by her amazing doctors. She is falling in love with me a second time.”
‘My Facebook dinged and woke me. I figured it was a random message from a friend. It wasn’t. ‘Could it be?!’ My heart sank.’: Adopted woman discovers biological family in message she nearly ‘ignored’
“The day became more life-changing by the minute. I soon learned who my biological father was. For 36 years, I wondered why I looked the way I did, where my personality traits came from. Yet, I was not searching for a dad. I already had one. An AMAZING one. I didn’t want to disrupt any lives.”