From time to time we like to bring you something a little off the beaten path. This is for all my fellow parents out there, and quite frankly the idea could be applied to anyone. Perhaps we all need to slow down just a bit, to live, to love, to laugh…
By Michelle Rose Gilman From Huffington Post Blog
Dear Parents,
Let me introduce myself. I am the mother of a beautiful and wise 20-year-old boy. Over the course of the last three years, my son survived 18 hospital visits due to severe Crohn’s Disease, three hospital-born infections that he will have forever, countless pain pills, IVs and shots, a surgically-removed colon, a colostomy bag, an intestinal resection surgery and just recently, a brain injury caused by a skateboarding accident. Do I have your attention? Good. Not that I wanted your attention this way.
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