I had hoped to write a new blog post this week, but a three-day migraine put the kibosh on that. Then, I decided to write a short Lifeline Friday post about the various resources on Come So Alive but I wanted to update the Music page first. Two years ago, Mike Marcotte, a Twin Cities TV personality who also has epilepsy, asked to write about our life and how we’ve learned to live with adversity. I went to our story on his website today to copy part of what I said there to add to the Music page and instead realized his article was my post for the week.

I didn’t think I would ever share this story on Come So Alive because it feels really weird “promoting” my family, but as I reread the article, written at the start of the pandemic, I realized, sadly, we are still dealing with so many of the same fears and challenges. The start of 2022 doesn’t feel as hopeful as a new year used to because we don’t see an end in sight yet.

So, if you are feeling the weight of what we are living through pressing down on you instead of the hope of a new year lifting you up, maybe something in this article will help:

When adversity hits: how one family copes with a child’s health concerns