I am working on my first video… stepping into the age of vlogging… and through this exercise, I am reminded of why I write.
While I was working on it, I remembered the hours following the moment I heard that my daughter had less than a year to live. Waking up in the middle of the night to feed my newborn, I had horrible thoughts running rampant in my head. (Why is it that our thoughts can be so dark in the middle of the night?) Anyway, I picked up my copy of Dr. Siegel’s book, “Love, Medicine and Miracles. In it, I found stories of exceptional patients. These people had completely exceeded the expectations of their specialists.
I clung to the stories in that book like I would have clung to a life-preserver. Hope began to grow, casting out my feelings of desperation. I began to think of things I could do to help my daughter, as opposed to my drowning in the daunting reality of our situation.
I write to “pay it forward”. I want our story to provide the kind of inspiration that I received… enough inspiration to turn thoughts from despair to optimism.
Here’s to hope!