"STAR IN MY LIFE"
In December, I had just bought my laptop in a way to control the internet world that my son had become so obsessed by. I was sitting there one night using it for the first time, and the internet as far as that goes. My stepdaughter, studying to be a professional counselor, had introduced us to the words "Reactive Attachment Disorder" (which countless trained professionals had failed to do over our challenging years). I entered those words into the search engine, and listed was "The Little Prince". I clicked on, and Sue's website pops up. I had never chatted in a chat room before. My fingers froze as I read these words being sent to me. She was so friendly and encouraging. I quickly felt her kindness and shyly typed back to her. I was in a desperate time, the night I met Sue. We had been waiting to go to an Intensive Program, a far distance from us, for our son. We were on a waiting list at the time, waiting for 5 months, and had one more month to wait. We were having doubts about this program, as it was very expensive. My husband and I both had to take off 2 weeks, and pull our son out of school. How could this program help our son when we had been to numerous professionals in the past? People we knew could not believe that we were spending all this money. The behavior was escalating at home, and there were visits from the police and youth detention. That last month waiting for this program, I know I would have lost my mind, and probably would have made the worst decision in our lives, and our son's , if I had not met Sue. Sue educated, encouraged and gave me back my sanity. We did make it to the Intensive, and we, and our son, learned so much. Our son still has a ways to go, but we feel for the first time in 11 years since his adoption, that he's on the right track.
Thank you Sue for this website, your hard work, dedication and genuine kindness that has already touched many lives all over the states, and internationally as well. You and your website have been a blessing in my life. You restored the hope that I needed to help my son and I'll never forget that..and because of that you are a "STAR IN MY LIFE", not just for the month!! : )
Your friend,
J's Mom
Thank you for your kind words. They say that a person never forgets the "first times" in their lives. I think we all remember our first date, first kiss, etc. Well... J's Mom... I will never forget you because you were the "First person to ever get brave enough to chat with me here in The Little Prince chatroom." : ) I am so glad that you clicked onto this website that night. So glad that you didn't give up on J. So glad that you were brave enough to agree to let me drive to Ohio and meet with you during those two difficult weeks of intensive therapy. J is very lucky to have you and your husband standing beside him. I hope that someday he realizes all that you've done, and thanks you for having the strength to keep fighting for him.
HUGS
-Suz
