Articles that I have written myself
When Hailey was first diagnosed, I was reaching at straws trying to find one that I could hold onto. So little information existed about Jordan’s Syndrome, but thankfully, my extended global family was just a click away on a Facebook group. I requested to join the night that we received the news about her. When I […]
Grief comes in waves and can splash you right in the face when you least expect it. Moments of sadness can appear at any given, random moment. How do you deal with grief when it comes for you? Life, like grief, isn’t always linear. I had my first miscarriage in 2016. I felt betrayed by my
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It is absolutely amazing how one gesture, one word, one conversation can be forgotten by one person, while the person on the receiving end replays every second of that one moment in their head. A conversation focused solely on something benign: a baseball game, the weather, a new show streaming on Netflix, or something on the
I worried about going into public and what it would be like.
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I may be the only one who is thankful for the pandemic. It bought me time. I didn’t have to face the world for an entire year after my child was born with a rare genetic disorder. I could barely face my new reality, let alone people that I know and strangers that I would meet.
