Monday, May 4, 2015

To help you find CHASA or your own CHASA (why I advocate number 3 of n)

I'm blogging up a streak to raise awareness for pediatric stroke in case you stumbled upon this blog, desperate for a community of parents also dealing the uncomfortable unknowns of raising a child with hemiplegia, hemiparesis or other symptoms of childhood stroke or mild cerebral palsy.  If so, look no further and click on over to the Children's Hemiplegia And Stroke Association (CHASA) webpage.
Does anybody really "get" prairie turnips?
[Kansas, May 2013]
While that scenario seems unlikely, I became aware of CHASA when I googled "two handed-toys" in the fall of 2013 and ended up here on a personal blog from someone else's May "Streak for Stroke", so it certainly is within the realm of possibility that your search is as circuitous.

I'm also here to encourage you to find your own CHASA.  Most of us are dealing with some thing (or things) that other people just don't "get".  Among the many wonders of the internet is the ability to connect geographically disparate people facing similar issues.  Among the CHASA community there are countless stories of relief, of lonely and bewildered parents feeling just a tad better, because they can share with the CHASA community that "gets it".  If you need a CHASA, please find your CHASA.  Someone else "gets it."
 

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