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Another dead end, I thought, hanging up the phone. And it had felt so right this time. The JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, New Jersey was almost everything I’d prayed for. A world-class facility specializing in the treatment of young adults with traumatic brain injuries.  Everything they told me convinced me that this was the place where my daughter, Jennifer, would finally begin to heal from the skiing accident she’d suffered two years earlier. Except Jenn and her husband lived in Vermont, and all of the housing options near the Institute turned out to be prohibitively expensive.

 

Lord, I prayed, I just want my daughter back. Why can’t I find a way to help her? After the accident, Jenn wasn’t herself. Instead of my outgoing, personality-plus daughter, she was impulsive and confused. After years of unsuccessful rehab, her doctor suggested the changes might be permanent. “That’s not an option!” I said, but now I wasn’t so sure. All my calls for help—on the phone or in my prayers—went nowhere.

 

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