A group jog turned dangerous for a Columbus family after a little boy is attacked by a neighbor's dog. Jacob Mitchum, 8, laced up is running shoes with his father, mother, and two other siblings Thursday afternoon.
My Dad Saved My Life - Lifestyle Tips & Advice. Photograph by Twenty. I've previously shared that I hated Mother's Day because I didn't have a mother growing up. Father's Day is a totally different story. Yes, my husband also gets major props on this day, too.
With Bruno Cremer, Vincent Lecoeur, Rufus. Joe, international poker player, is considered an irresponsible family-chief. His two sons drifted into gangsterism. The older dies from it. I had something pretty cool in store for you on Wednesday, but as I was preparing my father called. He was on a cruise with a friend of his that won a million on the lottery. Five years ago, my talented and prolific father, Carson Gladson, was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. As an established artist and lifelong pianist, having his perpetually steady hands become shaky was a devastating blow.
It's important to note that my dad is my mom's little brother. OK, I can picture the confused look on your face. No, my dad isn't really .
He is my dad because he raised me, loved me and took care of me, which, when you think about it, is exactly what a father should do. But that's not all my dad did.
He also rescued me from a dire situation and made one of the most difficult choices anyone could make: to become a parent to two children who were not his own. RELATED: I Was Raised By Gay Parents. Many parents actively chose to become such (even if there is a surprise pregnancy), but it's different when you're not a parent, not even planning on being a parent and not doing anything that would result in you becoming a parent. There was a lot of neglect, in ways that are still hard for me to talk about. As an infant, I suffered due to my mother's inability to care for me, as well as my older brother. Food was scarce, attention even more so.
My mother kept me in a dark room, on a urine- soaked mattress, in a dirty diaper, with an occasional bottle propped near my face. While initially she had been a more caring mother to my brother, by the time I came around he wasn't faring much better.
The worst happened when I was just 1. Our mother packed her things, took my brother, and abandoned me. No one knows how long I was alone in her apartment before being found. My dad was the one to get the phone call, and while he knew things had been bad, he never believed his sister was capable of walking away from her children. For me, this is where my dad took on more than he had to. Not only had he been visiting regularly to make sure my brother and I were OK while our mom was still there, but when he discovered that I had been left behind, he swooped in and took me home with him. The first nights were hard, he told me.
I cried often, was not used to being held, had difficulty keeping food down since I'd never been fed regularly, and had one of the worst diaper rashes he had ever seen. To this day, the back of my head has a permanent indentation, the last remaining evidence that my soft skull was left in one unmoved position for far too long. Slowly, I came around. The wounds healed, my belly grew, and my attachment to a safe, stable adult finally formed. I had been saved. Not long after my dad took me in, he learned that my mother had come back to town.
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When he went to confront her, he found her sitting in the back of a van, high on heroin, while my older brother, just 3 years old at the time, dug through a dumpster looking for something to eat. That was the night he became a father to us both. Because of our dad, we had birthdays with cake and candles, presents and laughter.
Because of our dad, we had Christmases that shimmered and spoiled us rotten, and Easters with bountiful baskets and creamy deviled eggs. We had chores, allowance, expectations, discipline, adventures and most of all, we had a family. My brother and I weren't separated by the foster care system and we weren't forced to live with an unfit mother that couldn't (and wouldn't) care for us properly. Although we lived with our dad, we were allowed to see our mother, to spend time with her and to make up our own minds about our relationships with her.
I chose to stop seeing her at 1. When I was 1. 5 and my brother 1. We will never know if she could have turned her life around, or if she regretted the mistakes she'd made.
What we do know is that however imperfect our lives were, because of our dad, we had a chance at normal. I didn't understand it then, the kind of sacrifice it takes to pick two children up from the rubble and claim them as your own. I couldn't have appreciated the weight of his decision to step in and give up every plan he'd ever had so that he could be a parent to two children who weren't even his. As a mother with two sons, one who isn't much younger than my dad was when I was born, I finally get it.
The truth is, I don't know if I have the kind of courage or commitment to do what he did. It's super- human. I am one of the lucky ones.
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