Challenge Accepted!
~ a blog about raising a child with cerebral palsy
Raising a child with Cerebral Palsy is challenging, exhausting, wonderful, exciting, beautiful, scary, ugly and overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be lonely.
Challenge Accepted is a journey through parenting a child with cerebral palsy and his two older sisters. Parenting is tough but challenges always feel more manageable when you aren’t alone.
I hope you enjoy and find company in our journey.
Let’s Dance
We start the day with medications and getting William comfortable and then move on to clean-up – and there is a lot of it after William’s night. William’s first stop is the bath. Once he’s…
The First Few Minutes of My Day
6am hopefully – I’m usually jolted awake though. “Bear! Check the monitor. I can’t here him.” Bear is what I’ve always called my husband. Everyone else calls him by his first name. Maybe subconsciously I…
Learning the Language
William is his name and Dystonic Cerebral Palsy is his game. William suffered a brain injury just after birth – Infant Jaundice/Hyperbilirubinemia are what caused his brain injury and the official diagnosis is Kernicterus. My…