Having had a child with some special needs – nothing too serious but I know the pain of worry – I was very touched by the work of an anonymous mother who has chosen to open her new blog with a touching and poignant post about her daughter. Get in on the ground floor with this blog. Her sister “gave her” the blog for Christmas. And she can write. Actually, it looks like both sisters can write.
Enjoy!
Five hours after my daughter was born into a comforting pool of warm water, strangers in scrubs came and arrested her. They carried her down into a world where life is in limbo. Her crimes were a broken heart and a narrow aorta. Her sentence would be long. Surely my sins were greater than hers…perhaps this was my punishment?
I followed her and found myself on the wrong bank of the river Styx, wandering lost, searching for the right coin to give Charon so that he would carry my baby back across to the Land of the Living.…Read More.
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Reads like fiction. (And that’s a compliment.)
Except it’s not… which made me swallow hard.
Yeah, me too. I don’t know how to say good things about this writing. Which is a good thing to say about this writing.
I apologize for having had to change the name of my blog. I am quite new to blogging and well…things happen when you’re a newbie.
You can find me at http://theunknowncontributor.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your encouragment on the NICU posting. It was difficult to write. It is hard to revisit that mental space.