When Larissa met Ian at college in 2005, she never dreamed she'd one day be his wife ... and his caretaker. After a tragic accident left Ian without the ability to speak, walk or care for himself, she did what any woman in love would do: she married him.
"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
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."
