[kelsh]

I can relate it to my new life...that I was given a chance to live by my own faith and spiritualism with love in my heart for myself and others on this earth. I could not have done this alone so I went to AA and worked my program and made changes in my life so I could be sober.

I can relate it to my beginning of alcoholic drinking with the death of one of my twins born in 1969. She died of a SIDS and this is when I did lose faith in my God and told him so.

Because I couldn't accept that she was taken from us I drowned my life in alcohol...for about seven years...every evening. I did have sober times here and there but it wasn't until 1988 that I did sober up the last time.

I do not accept parents living and making decisions for a child on just faith alone. Illness can be treated and this eleven year old could have lived.

My daughter was eleven years old when I took her to the doctor because something just didn't seem right...she had started wetting the bed and never had done that before plus the sheet was stiff like it was starched where it had been wet.

I found out she had Juvenile Diabetes...she was hospitalized for a week that same day...she could have died if I hadn't WONDERED about something that wasn't quite right.

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