“This is why I feel it is important, when choosing mom friends, there’s certain qualities I look for.”
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“This is why I feel it is important, when choosing mom friends, there’s certain qualities I look for.”
“The dreaded discharge day comes. You never anticipated how agonizing that would be. Before you leave, you make one last trip to see them.”
“I’m sorry but EXCUSE ME?”
“He sat down against the wall right beside the boarding line. People passed by him boarding the plane as he sat there in tears of amazement – his baby girl was making her debut into the world.”
“Her caregiver said, ‘Becky’s here.’ My mom looks around me and says, ‘Becky?!’ Then in my moment of joy, I realized she was looking for Becky. I was beside her, and she was looking past me in the hopes of seeing her Becky.”
“He wasn’t able to walk or stand. He was dragging one of his legs and crisscrossing them. Friends and family kept trying to reassure me everything would be okay, but I knew it wouldn’t. I could tell by how the doctors tiptoed around us, the way they were spending so much time with us. ‘It’s progressive, untreatable, incurable, and terminal.’ Despite all this, Sam is joy personified. He is the most incredible person I’ve ever met.”
“You took that picture, holding your baby tight, wondering if these old photos would be the only evidence of you she’d have.”
“We were young and felt invincible to the world. Little did we know the storm we would cross in our path. Then my water broke…”
“My heart was racing. I don’t remember the rest of the words he spoke, I just remember the look on his face. Just like our wedding day. Our little girl will forever know the joy he felt.”