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A cure for cerebral palsy?

Regular readers of my blog would know my son Daniel (14) has had cerebral palsy all his life.  While his CP only limits his movement, mostly to a wheelchair, we are fortunate that he has the gift of a great mind and can articulate himself and his needs through speech albeit with difficulty.  He has faced a lot of obstacles in his short life, as detailed in my blog, however it is a life for which he knows no different.

As parents we recently we found ourselves in a situation where the question was posed to Daniel, “If you were able to have an operation to remove your cerebral palsy, or lessen its effect, would you?”.

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Is the struggle worth it?

When I was a boy I loved getting my Hot Wheels cars and pushing them along the ground. Watching as they crashed into each other or got under mum and dad’s feet as I flung them across the kitchen floor.  I loved assembling the long tracks, clamping one end to the dining room table and watching as they whizzed down to the bottom, just in time for me to collect them and take them up to the top again.

Daniel loves his hot wheels cars; he has over 400 of them.

He got them out one day and I watched him as he tried to push one of them across the carpet, desperately attempting to enjoy the same feeling that I had when I was a little boy.

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God vs. cerebral palsy

Why would an all caring, all loving God give a child a disability?

Even with a modest, human sized, level of compassion how could any caring God do that … to anyone?

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Silver Lining

There were stages of our lives where we thought the only light at the end of a tunnel was an oncoming train and we would often wonder, How are we going to get through this?, but we do and generally we find it all works out in the end.

We try and focus on the positives that come out of every situation. In essence, we always look for the silver lining in every cloud. We don’t deny the existence of the obstacles that are right in front of us, we just focus our minds on what is the good that will come from this opportunity.

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