Everyday miracles: A day in the life of a special needs mom

Patience is passion tamed. (Lyman Abbott)My third daughter was born on a Monday, after a long and exhausting labor. Her appearance was a little shocking: she had large olive-colored eyes and a rug of dark blond hair sticking straight out from her head."Monday's child is fair of face." Yes, she was a little beauty and drew admiring remarks from many strangers as an infant. You could tell just by looking at her that she had a mind of her own - from the very day of her birth. As soon as I saw her, I thought there was something special about this baby. For three years, I marveled at her tenacity, her passion, and her precociousness. Anything she put her mind to, she could do or learn. She mastered her alphabet and was writing letters long before her 3rd birthday. She was athletic and driven. Any attempt to control her, though, was a little like putting a leash on a lion.Little did I know that all those character traits would be used to their maximum capacity in her little life. On her third birthday, she received her immunizations to bring her up to date before she had her tonsils removed the next week, in a desperate attempt to control her severe childhood asthma. She was never the same after those shots. Although it took 2 weeks for the doctors to catch up, by the next day I knew something was wrong and, after a week's time, I was desperate for an answer. It wasn't until she was almost comatose, unable to speak or move normally, that a team of doctors at the ER of the closest c...
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