I wrote this yesterday (and then edited it a bit today), and I thought I'd put it here so I'd have it forever. But also so it may encourage, uplift, and support other parents who are in the same amusement park I've been in for the last almost twelve years as the mother to two children with mitochondrial disease, a chronic and life-threatening genetic condition my husband and I unknowingly passed on to them. Yes. We have it too.When my youngest son was born and we were st [...]
