Natalie Ritchie is a 30 year old woman who has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and she realizes her time on earth is not a lot. She has a 3 month old daughter named Scarlett. Ike any mother she wants to see her child grow up and witness their accomplishments and fulfillment of their dreams. Unfortunately for her the condition she has been cursed with doesn't allow her much more time to live and she may never get to see her only child grow up. The only chance that this poor lady has to survive is to have a double lung transplant, an operation with a 0.01% success rate. It would take a modern day miracle for this woman to be with her child for the rest of her life. Ritchie has spent the last couple of weeks in the hospital and is fighting her toughest battle yet. When she was deciding to have a baby she was very hesitant because she didn't want to cause the baby any unnecessary stress that would come from her death. It is a very sad day today because she realizes that she will cause this baby pain. She needed a way to make it up to her, a way to make her feel better when she realizes her mother isn't there. They are keeping an online diary to allow her to know what was happening when she was a baby. This will allow her to connect with her soon to be deceased mother and to share something with her. This will allow her to feel normal when it is her against the world. Give her an opportunity to connect with her mother .
I believe this is a great way for the dying mother to connect with her newborn daughter. I can't possibly imagine going through life without a mother and the love and comfort she provides. A mother is a very important in all aspects of life. A child doesn’t fell complete without a mother and can live their whole trying to imagine what their mother was like and will never by satisfied. The ability for this children to read the words and see videos of her mother will allow her to get these impressions. This internet diary will allow a child deprived of one of the most important aspects of childhood and gives her the ability to find what her mother was like to a certain extent. This mother must feel terrible that she must cause her one and only child such pain, but in the end she was the one who gave this child life and she is doing everything she can to show her immense love. This child will one day realize the sacrifice the mother made and appreciate it a lot more.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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I think that this may be a good or a bad thing. I think that most probably this will be a good thing as you stated, but there is also the possibility that when the child reads the diary the child will want to meet her mom more and that would only cause the child more grief. We can only assume what will happen and I hope that the diary would have a positive effect on the child.
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