"I don’t know who this lady is... she waved at him and he made his way up to her. I thought their interaction would be the same as last time but I was wrong. "
"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
More than 350,000 people have signed a petition demanding that terminally ill 11-month-old Charlie Gard be allowed to receive treatment in the United States after multiple European Courts repeatedly shot down the parents’ appeal.
Though I wanted to be able to be strong enough and “spiritual” enough to combat the darkness and depression, I could not. It had very little to do with what “I” did to make it go away.
“I went from being the very pretty girl, just married, had my life in order, to barely being able to dress myself and needing help for everything and having to learn how to do things over again.”
"That was the one day that I sort of felt OK, and that’s because I knew I was going to die. I didn’t feel scared at the time. I just felt completely at peace."
