Good Afternoon my friends.. I have some exciting news to share with you all..My sweet 10 year old son Zachary no longer has to wear his orthotics...(braces) for a while... Not sure how long , but for now they are off! I don't have much time to visit today...it is another special day at the crazy Damato household..! Shopping to do to get ready for the big Party this evening celebrating Bonners graduating top of his class from the fire Academy! Bonner is My daughter Brookes future husband... They have lived here with us for about a year now ... It has been so much fun having them here... I am sort of a crazy person that loves a full house... something satisfying about sitting down to dinner every night with a houseful...Lots of love...
But, as everything else... Bonner and Brookies story will come later... There are a lot of little rivers in my life.. people and circumstances that just kind of flow together... sometimes you think they are flowing without any direction... but then you quickly realize that these rivers although sometimes rough and filled with rocks... most flow smoothly towards the destination that they were meant to be.
Back to Zachary... as I said I don't have much time today... But I had to share the news... It will be so nice for him to be able to wear a pair of sandals this summer... His poor little feet are always blistered and sore from his braces rubbing on them... It breaks my heart when he is crying that his feet hurt and there is really nothing I could do because I know he needed them....
He has worn braces since he was about a year old ... Zachary was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at five days old.. The doctors rushed in saying we needed to life flight him to Childrens Medical center that day to receive a shunt or he would not survive the night...Well we didn't believe the Doctors... called a couple of specialists in Dallas.. faxed them his MRI's and needless to say.. although he did receive his shunt... it was a year later.. minimizing any complications.. To this day there has not been one complication with his shunt... It is nothing short of one of many miracles in Zachary's life... I will fill you in on all the rest at a later time... He has been a blessing and has served a purpose in this world.
Oh... he is a challenging child...don't get me wrong.. but it is not due to his physical limitations.. it is due to his hardheadedness... why are all my children so hard-headed? Surely it does not come from their mother!
Well.. I must go for now.. thank you for spending some time with me today....Look forward to seeing you again soon...