Range of emotion

Physical therapists speak of the range of motion given to patients with physical handicaps. There is for families, a "range of emotion" that is part of having a handicapped child. My daughter fills me with both joy and pain, yet she is completely passive. She speaks only with her eyes, and I am learning to listen with mine. In this article I show a rare glimpse inside the heart of a mother with a severely retarded child. It is an honest account of the range of emotion felt, the values that have been affected and the intense love I feel. Our bonding that is normally developed between mother and infant grows only stronger and lasts forever.