Thank you for visiting Arianna and I today and welcome to our life. I'll start by saying I wish I had started a blog a long time ago, there's SO MUCH that has happened in Arianna's 6 years...but it's never to late to start right?
Today my daughter Arianna is a beautiful, funny, talking, happy and smiling 6 year old who attends Kindergarten. She loves being around other children, laughing, playing, animals, bubbles, movies...her new favorite is Alvin and the Chipmunks, the squeakqual and more. :O) She loves having visitors over to see her and going to visit others with her most favorite being her Grandma Sandy (my mom). The daughter I have before me today was none of the above a few years ago. In fact, she didn't know that anything or anyone around her existed, other than a movie playing on the television or an object spinning in front of her eyes while her hands stimmed wildly out of control.
It will take some time to catch up on the years past, but I'll start from the very beginning of our life together as mother and daughter. On March 28th, 2004 my sweet 6 lb 2 oz & 19 inches long baby girl, Arianna Rose, was born into this world and forever in my heart. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. She was perfect in every way...happy, smiling, eating, growing, cuddly, babbling and a "ham" for the camera who loved the attention of everyone around her. Little did I know that things would change so drastically in little over 1 year...not only for HER, but for myself as well.
I never had any concerns about Arianna's health or well-being from birth, that is until I noticed that something had changed...something wasn't right around her 1st birthday. Even though I had been in a car accident in January 2005 in which I suffered a traumatic brain injury (another VERY long journey of my own recovery), being a mom - I KNEW my child. She wasn't as cuddly or wanting to be held or touched as much. She didn't answer to her name when you called her and her eye contact....that loving little stare into my eyes that made my heart melt, had started to fade more and more as the days went by. Following my instincts and wanting some answers, I started asking questions to her pediatrician whom was quick to tell me to wait, wait and see when waiting was something I wish I would've known I should NOT have done. Little did I know, the fight for my daughters life, her future, was starting right before my eyes only I didn't know it....at least not yet.
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