How to Press On No Matter How Big the Challenge or How Slow the Progress
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When we are faced with a big challenge, we can either wallow in it or press on through it–even slowly. We do have a choice.
“I suppose you have to help her dress each day.”
My new friend said it more as a statement than a question. She was asking me about our daughter with special needs to better understand her routine – and thus ours – as we care for her each day.
But here, she supposed wrong.
It’s true Avonléa doesn’t have the use of her legs and only one working arm, so she does require a lot of help with the basics—from meals to hygiene to toileting. Yet this one-armed girl somehow manages to dress herself every day, and she does it very well.
However, you should know that it has taken her several years to master this simple skill.
Now she carefully picks out her outfit the night before, with everything matching right down to the color of her *ahem* underthings. And then slowly dresses herself in the morning (what takes you and me only a few minutes), taking 30 minutes or more.
