This was so sad. It's hard enough when you grow up feeling unwanted because one or both parents are not in your life. To have to deal with the foster system and the constant surgeries , too, just makes his growing up years seem pretty unbearable. I would like to say I would never have done that, had I been in his mother's place but sometimes you don't really know what you'd do until you're in that same exact position. You may end up making a choice you wouldn't have thought you'd have made when the situation was theoretical.
I sympathised with the mother in the moment of her initial abandonment. My first was in hospital his first 16 days and that was hard enough without the disfigurement part. I know I was a mess and people weren't helpful there and there was times i wanted to be as far as possible from it all.
By the time he's picked up the phone to her though it's unforgivable for her to try to absolve herself of responsibility in the manner she chose.
This was so sad. It's hard enough when you grow up feeling unwanted because one or both parents are not in your life. To have to deal with the foster system and the constant surgeries , too, just makes his growing up years seem pretty unbearable. I would like to say I would never have done that, had I been in his mother's place but sometimes you don't really know what you'd do until you're in that same exact position. You may end up making a choice you wouldn't have thought you'd have made when the situation was theoretical.
I sympathised with the mother in the moment of her initial abandonment. My first was in hospital his first 16 days and that was hard enough without the disfigurement part. I know I was a mess and people weren't helpful there and there was times i wanted to be as far as possible from it all.
By the time he's picked up the phone to her though it's unforgivable for her to try to absolve herself of responsibility in the manner she chose.