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01/02/10
Having been called things like failure to thrive, critically ill and medically fragile, its hard to believe that tomorrow morning you'll be seven years old. Not just 7, but a happy, smart, beautiful, prescription drug free seven years old. Where your life has taken me, I never could have prepared for.
I still can't express with words the depths we have dove into and the heights we have conquered, but what a ride it has been. Not many people can say they have had truly countless operations, 2 of them having been open heart and lived to tell about it. Hundreds upon hundreds of days admitted to a hospital room and every test known to man performed on your tiny little body all while I questioned, "what the hell am I doing to her?" Now I know.
I see you ride your bike and play baseball in the yard, I see you yell at your brother and pick up curse words like you spent 6 months in the military and I now know. You aren't just alive, but you live. You live and remind everyone around you to live. We throw out the rules and play in the rain, we cut school early to go out for ice cream and we have cold spaghetti right out of the tupperware for breakfast simply because we want to.
All those days I wondered why and now everyday you show me. Because I wouldn't know the highs if we hadn't been through the lows, I wouldn't know the peace if I hadn't known the chaos, and it was the hate I had for what ailed you that showed me the intense love that I have for you. These have certainly been the hardest 7 years of my life, but they have also been the most rewarding.
As a parent you always expect to show your child the way, but in this case it was the complete opposite. Thank you Maddy for taking me places that I never would have gone and thank you for reminding me not to just be alive, but to live.
Happy Birthday baby!
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