Fourteen years ago, I remember taking my son home from the NICU.
The way the world currently supports disabled children seems, at times, to be a misuse of the word “resilience”. Somehow because you’re this “superhero” parent, it felt like many believed I could just call on more strength to endure gaps in a variety of systems – be it health, education and whatnot. As I see it, the result of all this added pressure greatly affects the overall health of parents, because they are chronically stressed.
Losing a Parent in Your 20s, What I Wish I’d Known.
From diagnosis to death, my dad’s journey was a callously swift nine months. A strange lump in his thigh turned out to be osteosarcoma, which then...
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