Where Not to Look Glass Children — Part 4
I have been angry. Angry that my brother was disabled at all. Angry at what it did to my childhood and kept on doing to …
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Praised, Never Asked Glass Children — Part 3
Suddenly our mother and father locked eyes at that kitchen table and had the same thought–“when he seized in the hospital his heart stopped.” They …
Breathing Funny Glass Children — Part 2
Rick’s whole first year, our mother put her hand through the crib slats on his chest, becoming a human apnea monitor through every night. After …
Medication? Helpful or Harmful
Growing up Adventist, I heard on more than one occasion that Ellen White, one of our church’s founders, called medication a poison. In 1908, she …