I told her what to write “What IS Great About Being In The Hospital“.

I don’t remember the whole thing, but I do remember that one of the things on my list was “gravy”.

Bless their hearts.

There was gravy on everything.

That was the first thing thing I was pushed to “write”.

It was hard.

To put the words together.

To make sentences that msde sense.

To know why I KNEW it was funny, but I was supposed to make others think it was funny too.

Part of me wanted to just give up.

This was TOO hard.

Some parts have gotten easier with time.

In some respects the writing is just as hard as it was that day in the hospital.

I read what others can produce and I feel jealous.

It’s the words that feel trapped inside because I have such limitations.

How sad that it isn’t their ability to walk or use both hands that cause my heart to hurt the most.

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I met Mike Wolf (from the Stow Company) and Molly Gold (from Go Mom) last year at the Type-A-Parent. conference

I got to know them better when I asked them to get involved in the Love Drop for a little girl with a brain tumor and they leaped on board with both feet to help her family.

I was so grateful for their big hearts. Their incredible generosity on behalf of this family.

Then in late fall of 2011 they emailed me.

When they told me that they’d picked my family to be the recipient of the Organized Give I was stunned.

It was on the tip of my tongue to argue that there are those in much more need of organization help.

The tip of my tongue shriveled up when I found out that as part of the Organized Give they’ll donate to the charity of my choice.

As a board member of Violence Unsilenced and knowing the phenomenal work done there to give a voice and support to survivors of all kinds of abuse, I HAD to accept a wonderful gift.

TOUGH JOB.

So, to explain more about the Stow Company and the Organized Give watch these:

For every person who will “LIKE” their facebook page the Stow Company will donate $1 to Violence Unsilenced. up to $3000 dollars. (ends 2/15 so HURRY!!)(please take the time to click over)

Thank you, Stow Company.

Thank you Mike, Adrienne and everyone at Stow that’s making this happen.

That you, Barbara, the Atlanta ORG designer who designed our handicap-accessible storage options. (oh wait till you SEE what they are going to make happen!!)

Thank you, Molly, for just being you.

Thank you, Mayhew family, for giving me something to fight for.

Arm-wrestling, apparently.

Pretty sure it would take me part of the time.

Praying it JUST WOULD part of the time.

But, for better or worse, here I am.

Still alive.

Not dead yet.

And the awesome thing about being handicapped is that I have a live-in named Jackie that doubles as a sister-wife and the house wasn’t destroyed when I was able to care.

Jackie FTW!

Then sometimes your kid does something that makes you wonder if it’s possible they were dropped at birth by the doctor.