Looking forward to the webinar on December 13th, I wrote a brief essay in this month's Epilepsy and My Child Newsletter. You can read it by clicking HERE and scrolling down. My piece is titled Adolescence: The Developmental Milestone That Came on Time. The other articles are of interest, too, and we hope you'll register for the free webinar!
It's a beautiful article, Elizabeth. Enlightening well written and heart breaking. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonderful article, Elizabeth. You write, as usual, with profound eloquence. The part about Sophie's doctor speaking directly to her made me cry - because that should be the norm for all doctor/patient communication, and it isn't. How wonderful that you have a doctor like that.
ReplyDeleteYou write so beautifully Elizabeth, about something that must be gut-wrenchingly difficult to bear. I can imagine that this essay will be helpful for others who struggle similarly with disabled children but it's also helpful for the rest of the population to get some insight into issues we rarely think about. It hadn't occurred to me how difficult Sophie's adolescence could be. Because menstruation is a difficulty for most of us when it first arrives and ends particularly, it must be triply so for you and Sophie.
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A great piece of writing; sensitive, compassionate and informative. I am looking forward to the webinar....
ReplyDeleteYou are so busy that it makes my head spin sometimes. Writing, parenting, baking, cooking: you are a very versatile and accomplished woman.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, thank you for that article. It opened my eyes to something that I, sadly, had never even thought about.
ReplyDeleteI think every life prays for the "one great love of my life" and I think you are that for Sophie. I think too, that many of us wish that we'd had a mom like you.
I am so moved by this, by your straightforward telling of how it is, your honesty and dark humor, by Sophie's quiet valiance within her challenging body, by your unrelenting advocacy for her, your love, your fierce angry hurt loving resilient mother's heart. i know you get tired sometimes. i wish so much i could hold you then and tell you to just rest, we've got it for a while. i know that is not possible and that all i can do is send you love, so much love, elizabeth. thank you for sharing how it is.
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