“There was another unfamiliar feeling sprouting through the cracks of my bruised and battered psyche. That feeling was hope. I didn’t have to be this monster anymore. I didn’t have to hustle to find my fix and I didn’t ever have to use again if I didn’t want to, I finally had a choice.”
“I notice the cashier’s name is Grace. I smile because I love seeing any part of my daughter’s name. It’s like a little wink from her and I know she’s okay. ‘How are you doing today?’ the cashier asks. ‘I’m good,’ I say, only half lying.”
“He will never bring home homework. He will never miss the bus. He will never forget his lunch money. We will never meet his teacher. We miss them all. Our son never finished PreK.”
“I was an emotional, hormonal mess who was pregnant, but won’t be having a baby anytime soon.”
“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.”
“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.”
”’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.”
“You taught me not to sweat the small stuff in life.”
“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.”
“We have been fighting lately, so it’s made me ponder about marriage. I’ve learned marriage can be quite ugly. But you stay.”
