I used to wonder all the time when I would feel like an adult. Having a career, getting married, having children, none of that ever made me feel like an adult. I've always been responsible but I also always felt like I was still a kid. Until I heard Keira's diagnosis and had to sign paperwork for my baby to have her first blood transfusion. That was it, the day that I was unmistakably an adult. It seems impossible that a whole year has gone by. Our family has been changed forever. We now know how precious every moment is, how nothing can be taken for granted and how absolutely amazing people can be to one another.
We've had a tough year for sure. We know that there are many others who have it much worse and many who would have given anything to hold to their babies for 365 days after their diagnosis. I'd like to think that we have something to do with why Keira is coming through all of this so well but really I know that we're getting through this because our daughter is so incredible. I know with every fiber of my being that Keira will beat this and go on to get nothing less than the best that the world has to offer. She simply has to.
