2011: I Call A Do-Over

              

My absence yesterday and today have been related to issues with my son. He has stopped breathing 10 times in the past 32 hours. This is an unexplainable and recurring phenomenon. It wipes him out after the episodes and quite honestly, while I am calm and collected during the episodes - the aftermath is not. It is an adrenalin rush I could go without. The doctors call it apnea, I call it hell! 2011 is really off to a horrible start. Despite all my efforts to channel the negativity away it has seem to found a path to me. I refuse to let this drag me down this early in the year.

Helping Their Future Flourish

"Your future doesn't lie ahead of you, waiting to happen. It lies deep inside of you, waiting to be discovered."

                                                                     - Anonymous

I stumbled across this quote on Twitter by @mylivingpower last night. Two thoughts immediately  raced through my mind. First, was my son and what the future holds for him. Secondly, was how very different my life is than I ever imagined. That is not a negative mind you, just how many people do you know plan to have a child with complex medical needs that statistically you are going to outlive? While life is not easy, by any stretch of the imagination, it is very much enriched by the people we have encountered because of our path and also by my son. He has a patient strong fighting spirit about him.

FatherPOV 2.0 - Beta Release

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I am not one to make New Years resolutions. I have never known anyone that has actually full-filled a resolution or even made it past the end of January. With that thought in mind it is a little ironic that I begin my "point of view" blog again. Many of you read my WordPress hosted blog of the same name. Well think of this as version 2.0! When I originally set out with the old version I had a vision of grandeur towrite meaningful articles that would impact my readers. Maybe it would calm the fears of a new parent facing the newly confronted diagnosis of a complex medical child.