Happiness is a choice!!

Happiness is a choice!!!

To different people Happiness is different things. Happiness could be finding 20 bucks in a winter coat, languishing about something you need to do only to find someone did it for you or discovering you and your spouse have the same afternoon off.

 As a Heart family we have had to make many choices. To agree to turn your child over to a surgeon to save a life, a feeding tube because bottle feeding is too stressful on the heart or trust complete strangers with the health and well-being of your most treasured gift.

After what can be a traumatizing hospital stay, most families assume being at home will help in the recovery. While many times this is true, it can be very scary; the ups and down of weight gain, creating proper sleep schedules or just plain finding your way without hospital staff to guide you.

All of these things are incredibly emotionally exhausting. As heart parents we make a choice to fight, fight with every ounce of our being. We go without sleep, miss meals and sometimes even forget what day it is. However, I promise you each day we find Happiness.

For us Happiness was the surgeon reporting the surgery went better than expected, the first time Madelynn smiled eight days after surgery, and a year after physical therapy Madelynn was walking and entering elementary school to register Madelynn for kindergarten.

This experience could have ruined my family in so many ways. But we made a choice and that choice was Happiness. We chose to find Joy in even our worst days. Hoping you find Happiness and you make it your choice.

Happy Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day!!

TTFN~