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A Friend

There is a friend of mine who has a challenged daughter. Not remembering her diagnosis and being misleading is not what I want to blog about but it is the person within. Lisa and I became friendly when she opened her business in my area and I began to frequent it. We have never been out socially but for some reason I felt an instant connection to feeling her kindness immediately upon our first meeting. I come to find out she has a daughter who is challenged and have watched over the past few years how she cares and embraces this child in every possible way possible. Casey is not able to function on our society independently but she is aware of her surroundings and although cannot always express herself, she seems to have an amazing adjustment in her life and what her family gives her is as normal a life as possible. My emotional connection to her is a feeling of love and sorrow wanting to do something more for her. I often blog about treating the sick child as normal as possible and this is what I do with Casey. When I see her I give her a big hello and hope that she remembers me always with her doll or a project her mother has given her at work. I decided to give her a job helping me by stamping and putting return address stickers on the many thank you cards from my last event. The pile of mail is huge and I was hoping she could handle the task. I told her mother I wanted to pay her for her time. Well, more than a success, not only did Casey take care of the job faster than we all thought, her grandmother who was supervising her told me she was ecstatic with joy to have this job and was working too fast to get it done because she was so very excited. When she ran out of stamps she expressed that she did not know what she was suppose to do but was told they would go together to the post office to purchase more stamps and complete her “paying” job.

Can I tell you all how ecstatic I am to hear this! She made my heart melt and made me want to help her more giving her tasks she can conquer. Lisa, I am thrilled to do this for and with your daughter and will think of her often when I need help. Thank you for allowing me to do this for her. The rewards are more than I can express.