SURPASSINGGOOGLE'S #9th ULOG: He Is Not Just Special, He is A Gift!

No amount of treasure,even with all the gold and diamonds combined, is greater than the priceless unconditional love of a mother. Money may come and slip away from our hands yet our children are the best possession that will be with us forever.

I am reluctant at first to feature in my steemit blogging my middle child Gab. Not for the reason to stay away from prying 👀 eyes rather because I am undergoing through a very difficult dilemma of acceptance. I am in denial that at three years, he can only utter a maximum of five intelligible words, the rest are just gibberish sounds. Upon a visit to an educational therapist confirmed the other red signs that allerted me.

It was then I realized how a 💯 hundred fold more painful it is for a mother to hear such diagnosis that might forever scar my son's whole being.

I can't help the tears welling in my eyes. No it can't be! He was such a sweet boy that used to cuddle on my bossom. I know he is just a late bloomer, eventually he will be able to blurt all the cute talk of a little child. It is not ASD. NO. BIG NO! HE IS NORMAL JUST LIKE HIS OTHER SIBLINGS.

Though crying a river is futile and will not be of any help to this kind of predicament that my baby Gab is in, the ache is just really too much. I've got all the painful questions in my mind. What if he will not learn to talk at all? Will he be able to go to a normal school? Is he not going to be a threat to the little boys and girls his age? Will he refrain from being so compulsively hyperactive? Will I be able to bring him to the mall without the fear of losing him for he might break away from me? Will he be able to take a bath, comb his hair, tie his laces all by his own?
What if I am at work? What if I get sick? What if I will be gone? Who will look after him? Who will feed him? Who will hug and kiss him during one of his tantrums? Oh Lord.

If only I can shoulder this burden for him, I will do so without any question. Upon further explanation, her therapist told me to accept the fact freely. It is only through acceptance that I will be of help to him. Parents intervention is going to be a part of his therapy. She then recommended Gab to an Occupational Therapist as to assess him in accomplishing particular tasks right away.

Every therapy session is way too costly, it comes at five hundred to one thousand pesos per hour session only. Not to mention the three thousand assessment fee of his educational therapist.

Yet I have to accompany him every weekend sessions. I am at my financial edge.

Yet a mother as I am, I will cross rivers and seas just help my child afloat. I have it in my ♥ heart that he is normal like his siblings do.

As to reward him for this morning's accomplished task with his therapist, I bought him his favorite jolly spaghetti. It was pure joy to see him eating though clumsily, all by his own.

After the sweet treat, he then gamely give a high five to Jollibee.

And even posed for a picture.

Nobody can touch a mother's ♥ heart the way a child does. I am praying and hopeful that Gab will eventually become better to be the best. I know it deep in my heart that he will grow as a God-fearing, productive, and value laden individual. And I am most proud to say that, "He is not just special, He is a gift! "

Thank you Lord for giving me the most beautiful gift!

Thank you steemian 👪 family and uloggers for giving me the chance to share my wonderful journey with Gab, hope you will stay with me till the end.

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