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Tomorrow is the day I’ve been dreading

June 2, 2013 at 20:54

Mama Lewis

May relaxes in the grass

Strange isn’t it – how some moments are so significant that even the most unassuming of locations – a street corner, pushing Ieuan in a stroller – sear in brilliant detail on your memory. It was at a street crossing that I received the test results, six months late, about May’s hip displacement. The crosswalk light [...]

The one good thing that happened between all the puking and screaming

May 30, 2013 at 08:24

Mama Lewis

Click on the photo to enlarge and see the Vomit Monster stalking his prey

My son is a Vomit Monster. On our trip to Wales this week for one last visit with Nana before THE SURGERY, Ieuan turned into Godzilla. That is, if Godzilla demolished Tokyo by puking. I’ve turned it into a poem: Puke On the way to Wales Puke Coming home from Wales Puke On the car [...]

Councillor expounds further on why kids like May “should be put down”

May 12, 2013 at 12:41

Mama Lewis

Earlier this week, I wrote about the councillor in Cornwall who thinks disabled babies should be “put down”. Not satisfied with his new policy to save the government money by euthanising children, Colin Brewer has made further statements to the press. Here is a segment of his interview with Disability News Service: Brewer said: “If they [...]

What do you think of our theory about May’s pain?

May 11, 2013 at 22:49

Mama Lewis

May started giggling last night. A frothy, snorting childish giggle that bore no resemblance to the screams of late. It was wonderful. But, May’s troubles were not over. My husband and I escaped for a few hours today, but only down the road to a coffee shop. I wasn’t there long before May’s careworker phoned. [...]

“Disabled children should be put down” says re-elected councillor

May 6, 2013 at 21:54

Mama Lewis

Collin Brewer said children like May should be "put down"

Re-elected. That’s what happens to politicians in Cornwall who say disabled children should be killed off. (Sorry, Cornwall but if you live there I imagine you are even more enraged than I am.) Collin Brewer, Independent councillor for Cornwall, made the comments to Disability Cornwall at an information event at County Hall in Truro in [...]