It's hard to believe that it is now 2016. What a whirlwind of craziness 2015 was, and it has come and gone. Personally, I was not a fan. I mean it was hard to beat 2014 - new fantastic house, new adorable baby, 12 week maternity leave to hang with my kiddos - but 2015 wasn't even in the running. I feel like we were pretty much stuck under a dark stormy cloud the.entire.year. I am so looking forward to a better 2016, and we're starting off with a bang! Tomorrow we leave for our first big medical adventure up north. We will be seeing several of the doctors that contributed to a recent HIVEP2 medical publication at Kennedy Krieger. We will also be meeting with the director of clinical genetics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I am super excited (and nervous) about the trip, and really hoping to get some better insight into Curren's care and treatment. I'm also hoping that Curren doesn't get sick from the planes and hospitals, that we don't freeze to death (the low is 16!), and that I can accommodate Curren's gluten-free/dairy-free diet while we travel. I also wanted to share a great book I started reading over the holiday, and I think it would appeal to all walks of life. "Far from the Tree" by Andrew Solomon is about ordinary people facing extreme, and potentially isolating, challenges. The book focuses on the search for identity through struggle. I underlined a short passage, and I'm going to make it my thesis for 2016: Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.....It is not suffering that is precious, but the concentric pearlescence with which we contain it. The raw grit of anguish will never be in short supply. There is enough of it in the happiest life to serve these instructive purposes and there always will be....We all have our darkness, and the trick is making something exalted of it. I hope that everyone can make the most of their darkness, and have a wonderful new year. Here's to 2016!
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mary jean thompson
1/3/2016 08:39:55 am
thanks for your inspiration for 2016.........all of us on particularly difficult journeys need reassurance and hope!!!!!!! our love and prayers are ever with you..........
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Gloria Loud
1/3/2016 10:34:11 am
Here's hoping and praying 2016 will be the best year ever for you and your family!!!! You guys sure are troopers and never give up!
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Mary Lois Lee
1/3/2016 10:14:13 am
Yes, you, your husband and Curren have been an inspiration in the past and for your determination for 2016. We hope you can find help and many answers on this trip. It seems sometime the not knowing is worse than the knowing. Our prayers are with you all.
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About MeI am a mother, architect, wife, and a lover (not a fighter) - with a thirst for knowledge. My journey been recently refocused, as my family navigates through the world of medical and developmental uncertainty in hopes of providing every opportunity for my son to be his personal best in life. Categories
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