5 years. Since just after that horrible day 4 years ago, the goal has been 5 years. “Take her home and grow her,” they told us, “if the day comes when she needs a heart-lung transplant, the success rate improves dramatically once a child is 5.” It seemed impossible. 5 years felt more like a …
When you parent a child with special needs and any type of medical needs, you often hear people say, “I don’t know how you do it.” Most of the time I just shrug it off because I don’t always know either, but as a parent, you don’t think about it, you just do it. However, …
On July 14, 2011 at 7:30am, 2 men became our family’s heroes. From that moment on it seemed incredible to me that we had barely spoken to them, didn’t know their names and never had the chance to say thank you. How was it possible that there were people just out there that had played …
So clearly my attempt at {31 for 21} has been a failure of epic proportions. I’m not sure when we October ran past me, but it did and suddenly I’ve woken up and there are only 13 days left in this month. I had started with, what I thought was, a great idea – taking …
The last couple of weeks have shown some huge developments in Lily’s developmental skills. One of our new therapists from Holland Bloorview has just been this incredible ray of sunshine in our lives and it would be easy to chart Lily’s developments alongside Catherine’s visits. We’ve been lucky to have some incredible therapists working with …
So Lily has glasses. Sorry, let me rephrase that, Lily is rocking glasses. During her eye surgery last year, our ophthalmologist was able to get a better look at Lily’s eyes and after our follow-up appointment a couple of weeks ago, she told us that Lily was probably a bit near-sighted and recommended that we …