Apraxia, Blackjack, and Decisions
None of us decide to have Apraxia. We don't decide to purposefully be speech-delayed, school-delayed, or physically-delayed. You didn't get to decide to have a child with Apraxia either. No one decided to go down this path. Nor would anyone voluntarily want to. And as much as we wish we could have decided, we simply just cannot. We can't click buttons and customize a child; what they'll be like, their strengths, etc. If that were the case, we all would choose to have or even be the perfect human being. As you guys know, that's just not feasible. Despite this lack of choice in the beginning, we do have one other capability. We can decide how to act, react, cope, and treat. I was watching a Facebook video and this gentleman, diagnosed with cancer, said something interesting. He said, and I am paraphrasing, that life is a card game. We can't choose our deck, but we must learn how to play them. With that, I thought of two things: One, that I love a