by Stephanie McKeever | May 19, 2017 | Medically Fragile, Special Needs Parenting
You’ve all seen them. The social media posts titled #Blessed. They run the gamut from the genuine to the, well, not so genuine. Have you seen the hilarious videos poking fun at us Christians titled with the same hashtag? You would think with all the jokes...
by Kara Dedert | Jan 3, 2017 | Medically Fragile, Special Needs Parenting
It’s 4:54 AM and I can hear crying on the monitor. I stumble out of bed half asleep, yet used to this routine. I race down the steps and reach my son’s room. First, I take in the statistics on his monitors and then silence the alarms. The beeping alone can...
by Stephanie McKeever | Nov 18, 2016 | Hope, Medically Fragile, Special Needs Parenting, Terminal Diagnosis
Are you scrounging for thankfulness this Thanksgiving? Holidays can be a challenge for those walking through hard days. Perhaps you feel like you’ve been handed the short-end of the stick; your child is struggling, you’re exhausted and it seems like everybody...
by Kara Dedert | Aug 24, 2016 | Medically Fragile, Special Needs Parenting
In a perfect world, I would be patiently doing many hours of therapy each day with my son and in a perfect world, he would be meeting milestone after milestone. Then there’s reality. Calvin is one of five kids who need me, he is not “catching up”...
by Kara Dedert | Mar 30, 2016 | Living Life Daily, Medically Fragile, Scripture, Terminal Diagnosis
It was so definitive, those conclusive words of the neurologist: “He will never walk or talk. In many ways he is incompatible with life.” Calvin was less than one and I was more than hopeful. I would sit up late at night reading stories of kids pushing far past...
