by Michelle Poppleton Chumsae | disability, medical, parenting
Miles Smiles (My Heart Half Heals)Mothering a severely disabled child with love I’ll never forget that phone call as long as I live. The phone rang as I read a line from my water-warped pale yellow copy of “Desiderata*,” which I had uncharacteristically posted on my...
by Michelle Poppleton Chumsae | disability, medical, parenting
Miles Smiles (My Heart Half Heals)Mothering a severely disabled child with love I’ll never forget that week as long as I live. It was 6 a.m. on a Thursday morning in early June. I was up early to groggily nurse Baby Miles in the living room rocker. He was now almost...
by Michelle Poppleton Chumsae | disability, medical, parenting
Miles Smiles (My Heart Half Heals)Mothering a severely disabled child with love It was a whopping gut punch. At Miles’ eighth birthday party, I saw what I knew all too well was a return seizure. Quick and small, imperceptible to everyone else, it was a cruel visual...
