![]() ![]() ![]() It also means huge financial costs, as well as the emotional highs and lows of being a special needs child and how that affects everyone in the family. Constant medical procedures, physical therapy, and limitations around how she aproaches the most simple everyday challenges. OI means a life of physical and emotional pain for Willow. The collagin in her bones isn’t developed correctly and so her bones break at something as small as a sneeze, tripping on something, jumping off the couch. She has osteogenesis imperfecta, or Brittle bone disease. She was born with many broken bones, and will over her life sustain hundreds. That might sound strange but not for Willow. ![]() This if forbiden as she actually broke her arm pretending to skate on the kitchen floor. She’s talkative, loves collecting random facts and longs to be able to ice skate. Willow O’Keefe is a bright energetic and loving six year old girl. Her books usually have a court/ trial in them, and always leave the reader with much to consider. ![]() I just finished rereading a novel by Jodi Picoult who is an amazing author on books dealing with tough themes around race, disability, religion ETC. ![]()
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