tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287699754846887320.post8469343161297448127..comments2023-09-05T07:57:14.800-04:00Comments on I See Love: BeetsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06059664122522530377noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287699754846887320.post-86742636252480452982011-05-04T00:12:02.956-04:002011-05-04T00:12:02.956-04:00I agree with both Taryn and Lorraine. and Anonymo...I agree with both Taryn and Lorraine. and Anonymous~ beautiful essay. So true. My cousin was diagnosed with endometriosis at 14 and underwent a hysterectomy at 27~ never having had a child. She signed up to foster a special needs child. When she walked into (her future daughter) Rachael's room, she found a 16 month old on a vent, on 24 hr. oxygen, with a stomach tube. All because she was born at 24 weeks weighing just over one pound. Dad was in jail, Mom overwhelmed and possibly involved in drugs herself~ Rachael had basically been abandoned in a Houston hospital. Jennifer said, "I knew she was MY daughter." Doctors tried to discourage her by listing all of Rachael's issues and told Jen Rachael would likely never walk, talk, eat or breathe on her own~ basically live in a vegetative state. Jennifer went with what she believed God was telling her~ what she felt in her heart. With no medical background, she took Rachael home as a foster child with the intent to adopt. Months later, Rachael was rolling over, scooting around, "talking" to us, and other milestones of a child that a few months old would reach. Eventually, she was off oxygen completely and had her trach reversed. She walked alone at 4 yrs. old, not long after she started eating real food, got her tube out, potty trained, and started school at 7. Today, she is an air guitar expert, an ACDC fan, a Wii gamer, dancing queen, loving beautiful example of God's grace and mercy. She is 13 or 14 now. She is Jennifer's daughter~ and most importantly~ she is LOVED. Rachael is our angel and hero. I can't imagine not having. <br />Who would want a child like that? Who wouldn't???!!! :)Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00571947128036699544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287699754846887320.post-39199727629294478922011-05-03T18:17:19.713-04:002011-05-03T18:17:19.713-04:00Stunning essay, Jill! It should be published...se...Stunning essay, Jill! It should be published...seriously. Beautiful.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615600778259308902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287699754846887320.post-87394146560281184752011-05-03T14:11:52.410-04:002011-05-03T14:11:52.410-04:00I love that analogy, Jill! So so true... and Anony...I love that analogy, Jill! So so true... and Anonymous above, what a wonderful letter. <br />"That child" is still a child. Bottom Line.<br />PS. I can't say I like beetroot either... but I am game for giving things a chance :)Taryn van Rensburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07891234250232824556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287699754846887320.post-56252833335915523332011-05-02T22:29:09.275-04:002011-05-02T22:29:09.275-04:00I think you will like this. It really speaks to th...I think you will like this. It really speaks to the trisomy parents. Someone I know wrote it and posted it on her blog when I told her that we had been told that one of my baby's doctors (trisomy 13) asked the other doctors "what wants a child like that?" <br />***********************************<br /><br />Who Would Want a Child Like That?<br />I am told one doctor said to another about a woman wanting to bear and deliver a child with known severe disabilities: "But who would want a child like that anyway?"<br /><br />Dear Doctor:<br /><br />Who would want a child "like that"? A person who wants to learn about love. A person who wants to know about self-sacrifice. A person who wants to know more about the value of life, who wants to move beyond the understanding of owning stuff to the understanding of giving and emptying of the self.<br /><br />Who wants child "like that"? A person who is connected, a person who wants a challenge, a person who wants to face hell and own heaven right here, right now. A person who wants to grow and change and learn to navigate the waters of joy and despair, of choices deep and dark and profound.<br /><br />Who wants one "like that"? Someone strong who wants to learn about weakness. Someone weak who wants to learn about strength. A person who wants to change the whole world, a person who wants to change one child's world. A person who wants to cry hard and laugh harder. A person who wants to drink deeply from what is sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.<br /><br />In short, who wants a child "like that"? A parent wants a child like that...their child...and they want to have every chance to do their job well. They deserve every support medical and social, emotional and financial that it takes to bring "that child's" life to fruition, to bring "that child's" gifts to the world into which "that child", for whatever reason, chose to enter.<br /><br />Who are you to question the life of a child "like that"?<br /><br />http://severedisabilitykid.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-would-want-child-like-that.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com