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"Glass Child"

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  "The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him"  Exodus 15:2 “Glass Child”   A term used to describe the challenges of siblings of children with disabilities or serious medical complexities/chronic illnesses. The term refers to the idea that parents seem to “look right through” their healthy children due to the demands of caring for the child/children with a disability.  Jeremy and I often think of all the feelings that we are processing, that undoubtedly, our healthy children must be feeling them too. However, they are trying to process and keep up with everything through the lens of a child, without the maturity to really be able to grasp the magnitude of their little sister’s medical needs.  This is an aspect of being a medical family that I haven’t discussed too much here, it’s not super easy or fun to talk about it either …it’s even harder to navigate. There is gui