[blindkid] blindkid Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7
Kimberly McClelland
shreveport_therapy at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 9 23:10:57 UTC 2010
Take one day at a time! You and your child will handle what ever is to come in the fucture.
Kimberly B. McClelland, LCSW
shreveport_therapy at yahoo.com
Telephone (318) 861-1090
Fax (318) 861-1029
--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Leslie Ligon <atfirstsight at ligondesign.com> wrote:
From: Leslie Ligon <atfirstsight at ligondesign.com>
Subject: Re: [blindkid] blindkid Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 6:37 PM
Rene, thank you very much for posting the original - the one I got shortly after we found out Ethan was going to be blind.
It's a powerful analogy and after having just talked last Wednesday to yet another *new* mom, I used my own to try and help her sort through terribly hard emotions of dealing with a child who's cancer treatment will more than likely cause complete blindness (neuroblastoma) without the necessarily resulting in completely eradicating the cancer.
I asked her to try hard not to think of blindness as a sighted person, i.e., loss of something, but instead, as a new perspective gained. That there are many fun things even a very sick blind child can enjoy doing while propped up in bed hours each day. And that making the decision to try and save their five-year-old son's life would never be a bad direction to go, regardless of any of the results.
On this woman's behalf, if any of you have gone through this particular or similar scenario and don't mind passing your information to her, please let me know. I'll get it to her.
Best,
Leslie
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