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we all fall down sometimes, and yet… by erniebufflo

This Spina Bifida awareness month, I’ve been super focused on highlighting the utter ordinaryness of most of our life, even with SB in the middle of it. Because that’s the truth. Most of the time, most of our life feels very very normal. Toddlers be toddlers, which means that I spend my time reading books to both of my girls, feeding both of them meals, carting them both around town, doing up seatbelts, putting up ponytails, snuggling and reading stories and kissing booboos.

And then we go to the park with our friends for a picnic. All the kids swing. All the kids slide. All the kids run and play. But only one of them is constantly falling down, and, it turns out, she’s starting to notice it too. Yes, Claire walks with the help of her braces, and we are so so so very thankful for that. But it doesn’t erase all difference. Because it’s fall. Because of the damn acorns. Because they roll underneath her unsteady feet, and they destabilize her weak legs, and they take her down again and again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-sweatt-orsborn/we-all-fall-down-sometime_b_6062336.html

I thought this was great and the rest of the story can be read at that link. Its nice to be able to read other peoples experiences as well.