I would like to share this article coz I find really inspiring and moving.
Its aurthor dedicated it to a Canadian mom who lost her daughter at the hospital because the unwritten law of babies with Trisomy 13 in an emergency is DNR: ie do not resuscitate. Imagine, going to a hospital.expecting them to save your child, and not knowing that they put a "do not save" without telling you!
I reproduce it here to share:
WHO WOULD WANT A CHILD LIKE THAT?
I am told one doctor said to another about a woman wanting to bear and deliver a child with known disabilities: "But who would want a child like that anyway"?
Dear Doctor,
Who would want a child "like that"? A person who wants to learn about love! A person who wants to know about self sacrifice. A person who wants to know more abot the value of life, who wants to move beyond the understanding of owning stuff to the understanding of giving and emptying of the self!
Who wants a child "like that"? A person who is connected, a person who wants a challange,a person who wants to face HELL and own HEAVEN right here,right now! A person who wants to grow and change and learn to navagate the water of joy and despair, of choices deep, dark and profound.
Who wants a child"like that"? Someone strong who wants to learn about weakness. Someone weak that wants to learn about strength.A person who wants to change the world, a person who wants to change one persons world. A person who wants to cry hard and laugh harder. A person who wants to drink deeply from what is sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.
In short, Who wants a child"like that"? A "parent" wants a child "like that"...their child....and they want to have every chance to do their job well. They deserve every support medical and social,emotional and finacial that it take to bring "that childs" life to fruition, to bring "that childs" gifts to the world into which" that child", for what ever reason, chose to enter.
