Come What May and Love It
Several years ago our teenage daughter was in the hospital. She developed some form of adolescent dementia and did not recognize us for many weeks. The visiting hours were only for a couple of hours a day and I thought I was going to lose my own mind. Here when she was at her sickest I could not be there to comfort her, sit by her, even hold her hand. I did not care if she didn't recognize me, I just wanted to be there. The pain in my heart was palpable and I paced and paced and cried and cried. Another child had experienced a similar episode years earlier(the autism and neurological bug had bitten our family AND hard)! People had offered advice from exorcisms to alkaline water so I had turned into a semi-hermit to avoid odd suggestions. My mind would not accept that this would happen again to another child so I had been in denial for months. My mom had called and told me she had noticed some signs and I got mad. My husband was worrie...