Last Thursday was a very special day for a very special boy. Our youngest grandson turned one.
He started fitting a few days after he was born. Then the chilling news. The initial prognosis was that he would either die within twelve months or survive in little more than a persistent vegetative state.
Well, come Thursday last week our grandson was still with us, and most definitely not in a persistent vegetative state. His mother took possession of a specially adapted wheelchair on the eve of his birthday, a wheelchair that will enable him to sit upright and look the world in the eyes.
He so much enjoyed the celebrations. Can you picture the enormous beam on his little face, strapped securely into his lovely new wheelchair as he starts to observe the world from a different perspective? Perhaps we too might join him and beam broadly as we see life ourselves, for even the shortest of times, from a different perspective ...
Glad to hear the little one is doing so well. He looks so sweet! It looks like he certainly enjoyed his birthday celebration.
ReplyDeleteTake care,
Kate
Birmingham_Blues
Hi Kate,
ReplyDeleteit was a lovely time. We're so proud of our eldest daughter and how well she's coping with a set of circumstances it's hard to believe.
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