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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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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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Swimming in the deep end

Cartoon man swimming but having difficulty, with arms raisedSwimming in the deep end could easily be interpreted as a metaphor for something other than swimming … however, in this case its not! ;-)

Have you been able to get your child in or near water? Does it terrify you that they would drown due to their inability to right themselves if they were in trouble?

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Never Say Never (Part 1)

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There have been many times where Penny and I have looked at an activity in advance and come to the conclusion that Daniel would not be able to do it. We don’t do that anymore.

As time passes, we are constantly surprised at both Daniel’s ingenuity for working out how he can participate in games, as well as the ingenuity of his classmates …

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