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You Make a Difference
We all know that doing nothing in the face of adversity is rarely a solution for anything. So if your child has one of the birth injuries related to a lack of oxygen in the bloodstream, you’re obviously not going to be sitting back and observing. You’re going to be doing something—anything and everything you can—to help your child. That’s probably one of the reasons you’re at this Web site right now.
All of us want the healthiest possible children. But whether your child is perfectly healthy or faces many, many challenges, he or she is a gift and a responsibility that requires you to do the most you can to maximize the joy and happiness your child and your family can experience. We have been amazed at how well some children with profound injures can do when together, parents, health care providers and the community unite to give them the love, care and support that they need. Special needs children are special...in part because of the joy they bring to their parents, families and friends. They help us focus on and come to know what is really important in this world.
The Beatles’ song says, “All you need is love.” That’s not completely true in a situation like yours. A child with a birth injury needs a good health care team. But it’s you, the family caregiver(s)...whether you’re a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or a loving member of an extended family...who can turn ordinary care into extraordinary care, with love and hard work. That is your contribution to making an amazing difference in the quality of your child’s life.
Hmmm. Perhaps the Beatles were right, after all.