I decided Id like to name something/someone I am thankful for in this holiday season.I am thankful for my mom, but not just this holiday but for every holiday or days in which are not holidays...and here is why...People think a parents love is words, flowers and poems, rubbing their childs hair, playing games with them, reading them stories, snuggling them on the couch and rocking them to sleep. People think love is breastfeeding a baby, cuddling them to their breast,playing peek a boo and tickling their toes, buying a toy when you go to the store, teaching them to ride a bike, going to their childs play, paying for activities, and 7am practices. People think love is easy. That its happiness, beautiful and patient. Those things are love BUT the easy side of love. And that is all most people will get to experience. But I know something more that they dont: I know love is My MOM standing there beside my cribat 4am, feeding me through a tube, I know that love is MY MOM holding a stopwatch to count my breaths, I know that love is a foot, burned by a pulse oximeter. I know that love is MY MOM restraining me so she can insert my feeding tube, I know that love is MY MOM giving me medications all throughout the day, I know that love is MY MOM listening to my heart with a stethoscope.I know that love is MY MOM watching so many strangers poke needles into my arms while she cries, I know that love is MY MOM driving me to endless doctors appointments and hospitals. I know love is MY MOM climbing into a narrow gurney to lay beside me, trying not to disturb my EKG leads, I know that love is MY MOM learning to walk out the hospital room while I watch her from my crib, I know that love is MY MOM signing consent forms that risk my life.I know that love is anger, fear and frustration. I have learned that love can seem painful, both to the one giving and the one receiving. But I learned that this love is perhaps the most beautiful of all. This love is selfish, stubborn, born of determination to fight for your child. It is born of miserable circumstances tha most will never have to face. It is the love that will face trials and conquer them. This IS the love MY MOM has always shown me from birth til this very moment and for as long as needed. I AM THANKFUL FOR MY MOM!
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:55:06 +0000
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