My Hope For Addison

There's a scene in Desperate Housewives I think about often. Lynette is pregnant with twins and finds out one of them will have special needs. As she is trying to cope with the news of her child's disability of being blind, will not be to walk, graduate college. Her husband tells her that with her being home and have intense therapy, their child could have a chance at life.

In one scene (I tried looking for the video) it is shows her son as a baby and her and the therapist are working together on leg strengthening and exercises in the home.

Later, you see her son walking with a cane and trying to get her to make a sandwich. At first, she said, "As soon as I'm done, I will make you one." There was a bit of an argument between them that he can do make a sandwich himself. As she ignores some of the argument, she watches her son making his own sandwich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJis5bRAWAk

The last scene shows him graduating from law school and is valdictorian of his class. He mentions in his speech what the doctors told his mom of what he would not be able to do and basically he proved them wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnojPDCmqsM

As I think about these scenes, it makes me teary eyed thinking about what the doctors has told us about Addison of what she will not be able to do in the future. Things that we take for granted and wish for our kids: going to college, driving a car, getting married, and maybe even have children of their own.

My hope is that we will prove the doctors wrong and she will do all the things we have dreamed for her to accomplish.