If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may have heard of Dandelion Magazine. It is a magazine dedicated to parents of special needs children. It is a great resource full of information for therapies, activities, events, doctors and so much more.
I was honored, beyond flattered (and in tears from excitement) when I received an email from them a couple of months ago asking if they could run my post about Cody’s First ER Visit in the upcoming edition of the magazine.
Though my first instinct was to say yes, I second guessed myself because this was going to be a fairly widely spread magazine in the Bay Area and my personal experience with my full heart on my sleeve was going to be exposed.
Then I remembered why I posted it on the blog in the first place – to let other parents know that others have gone through their situation and that feeling vulnerable and hopeless during the situation is normal. Even though you feel alone in that moment and that no one could ever understand what you were feeling, there is someone that does understand and can relate.
That alone was more than enough reason for me to say “yes” to sharing my story.
The digital copy of the magazine was made available this week and I was excited to see my handsome baby not only in the article, but on the “What’s Inside” page!
The digital copy of the magazine can be found at: http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=11210&l=1
It was a pleasant surprise to also see Baby Sofia and her touching adoption story in the magazine as well!!! (Cody has a soft spot for Sofia and calls her his “baby”. He loves to carry her and cradle her even though she is more than half his size!)
The article features a picture of Cody with is “James Dean” stare. ;)
My boys…..
It still makes me choke up when I see this picture of my boys. It reminds me of how blind and unconditional love can be. We worried that DJ, 3 years old at the time, would be scared of all the wires and tubes coming out of his brother, but he walked into the ICU room, walked straight to his brother’s bedside and grabbed Cody’s hand and just held on to it. He didn’t ask about the ventilator; he didn’t ask about the tubes or wires. He just stood there holding his brother’s hand.
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