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When It’s Just Us: A Special Needs Family At Home

What must it be like when a special needs family is alone back at home?

So many people like to preach about the importance of fathers in a family unit but then look down on them when they arrive pushing a stroller.

Surely he’d talk by three. When three came and went, it was surely four. It was a never ending cycle of “everything will be different next year.”

A family is made up of many people. While no member should be raised above others to define you all, no member should hidden in the shadows either.

Chris’s death devastated me. Even now as I write this 13 years later, I have a hard time expressing my feelings about it.

Lucas may be able to recognize some words and directions but, as a non-verbal five year old, the concept of “bless you” isn’t one of them.

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