Another Mother's Day, with Kallmann's Syndrome
My sweet son brought us dinner for Mother's Day.
Although I have gone off sugar and desserts, I did eat some pie.
My son is a miracle. I do not tell him that on a regular basis, although he knows it, I think. It's not something we talk about, that for him to be conceived I went through an interesting series of shots and scans and procedures. He was not supposed to be, not from a natural point of view. As I have written before, I have Kallmann's Syndrome, a condition that means much less to me now than it did when I was younger but which still casts a shadow over my life. Kallmann's has many ramifications, but the real prospect of not having a child is the hardest.
In that light, calling my son a miracle is not a big exaggeration, and the fact that he grew up, survived pyloric stenosis as an infant, several years of seizure disorder from 4-11, and then grew up to be a taxpayer who likes to cook for his parents. Considering all the things that can happen to a young man and that his mother was not genetically predisposed to have children, I call that a miracle that he was able to cook for us today.
My son is a miracle. I do not tell him that on a regular basis, although he knows it, I think. It's not something we talk about, that for him to be conceived I went through an interesting series of shots and scans and procedures. He was not supposed to be, not from a natural point of view. As I have written before, I have Kallmann's Syndrome, a condition that means much less to me now than it did when I was younger but which still casts a shadow over my life. Kallmann's has many ramifications, but the real prospect of not having a child is the hardest.
In that light, calling my son a miracle is not a big exaggeration, and the fact that he grew up, survived pyloric stenosis as an infant, several years of seizure disorder from 4-11, and then grew up to be a taxpayer who likes to cook for his parents. Considering all the things that can happen to a young man and that his mother was not genetically predisposed to have children, I call that a miracle that he was able to cook for us today.
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