A few weeks ago, we received a phone call from Mal’s teacher. He had been in a fight with another of his classmates and had found himself in deep trouble. Not only that but he had come up worse than the other kid in the fight and had been thumped across the head. By the…

The nurses on our ward are angels with invisible wings. They are almost like a second family to Ivy and I. I can even tell some of them how much of a failure I feel. How my mothering takes a severe beating when I have to bring Ivy to the hospital, tail between my legs,…

Ivy has been on a downhill slide for the last ten days. Up down, up down. Sick, okay, just hanging in there. Each day has been an adventure. After the PICC came out, her ears started discharging almost immediately and the paed was getting all his eggs together, planning his next move. We were trying…

I used to sit at this window and watch my children playing outside. I used to sit and wonder what had gone wrong and how I was ever going to be able to pull myself out of the mud. The window was my view to the outside world because I was too scared to leave…