Rising from the ashes
Eight years ago, my middle son Luke contracted a very rare, strange, unknown disease which almost killed him. He was five years old at the time.
I had just given birth to my daughter weeks before, and in the middle of the sleep deprived and hormonal turmoil of taking care of a newborn, I now had to face my son battling for his life at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The disease left him with heart aneurysms and the need to take blood thinning medication, which posed its own risks for an active, tree climbing, trampoline bouncing boy his age. Any fall or bump could cause internal bleeding due to the medication.
My husband and I had to make a choice how we responded to this crisis and how we would allow Luke to live his life from now on. The lovely Louis Cartwright interviewed me to talk about this experience, and how we moved from this crisis to deep transformation.