Re: Hi - I'm new - please visit my family's blog (http://whenrainhurts.wordpress.com)

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Hi ,

Welcome to the group. We look forward to learning and growing with you as well.

Your project about your son seems very inspiring and I look forward to reading

more. Keep up the good work:-)

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> I look forward to learning and growing with you - thanks!

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> Here is a little ditty about my blog/book project:

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> http://whenrainhurts.wordpress.com

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> When Rain Hurts is the story of how our Russian adopted son came into

our lives, the series of events that led us there, and my successful journey

toward loving him, while accepting and adjusting to the fact that I can't

substantially heal him. suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Mild Autism,

Seizures, BiPolar Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Reactive Attachment

Disorder and suspected Mitochondrial Disease. He is also our beautiful and

loving boy.

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> I undertook this project because I felt demoralized after reading the plethora

of adoption- and autism-related books on the market. Most if not all portray a

family who struggles with their child's difficulty at first, but who ultimately

learn to embrace the problem and become enriched because of it. Reading these

accounts made me feel inadequate, as a mother and as a human being. I love my

child, fiercely in fact, but hate the disabilities that plague his future and

pepper our daily lives with genuine chaos. I want my child to be whole. This

project seeks to explore these feelings. Adoption isn't always easy and

adopting an alcohol exposed child carries with it inherent booby traps that

simply cannot be overcome by love, faith, medication or any other kind of

intervention. I know because I've tried.

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> Please take a look if you have a chance and if you like what you read, pass it

along to others and ask them to do the same! I am hoping to get this published,

of course, once I'm finished. Thanks again :-)

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> E. Greene

> mgreene2@...

> (845) 758-4589 (home)

> (914) 466-9790 (cell)

> htttp://whenrainhurts.wordpress.com

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