Who are the disabled ones?
- Lynn McCann
- May 23, 2014
- 1 min read
A great blog post by Ros which gives us great good for thought …
I wrote this for Through the Roof (http://www.throughtheroof.org/info-and-resources/articles/ros-blog/) and it is reproduced here by kind permission.
The day my second child was born, my world changed forever. She was thirteen weeks premature and the doctors had been warning me to expect her to be stillborn. Even if she was alive, they said, she wouldn’t cry, as her lungs would be too immature. Moments after she was born I heard her give a fairly powerful cry – it was, and remains, the most wonderful sound I’ve ever heard in my life.
Now began her long, hard fight to hold on to life. It was more than ten weeks before the doctors could tell us that she would live, and at least two years before we could say with confidence that her life was no longer in danger.
From her birth onwards our world was turned upside down. I wrestled…
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