Lacey Buchanan

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Leading the Blind

On February 18th, 2011, our lives were changed forever when our son Christian Taylor Buchanan entered the world. He was born with a bilateral cleft palate and lip and almost completely blind. This blog is the story of his life, the joys we share, the challenges we encounter, and the amazing and trying journey ahead of our family!

Growing

The last few months have been so fun and full of adventure for Christian and I. Besides being incredibly busy with life, school, and work, we have also been busy being a family and watching Christian grow up.

I have started an article in the local paper that advocates disability and those who have one. My main goal is to educate others so that Christian can grow up in a world where he is treated equally and not judged by his disability, but by his heart. It has had an incredible reaction so far and I am excited to continue to share life and teach others about something that is so close to my heart.

We also stay busy with Tennessee Early Intervention Systems and Special Kids physical therapy. Because of Christian's disabilities, he is prone to be behind on his development. It doesn't mean anything is wrong with Christian. It is to be expected with any child with visual impairments. TEIS visits us twice a month to check up on Christian, find out any concerns I might have, bring toys, and help me figure out ways to help Christian develop as best he can. We go to Special Kids Inc. every Tuesday to visit Christian's physical therapist, Jill. She works wonders with helping Christian develop correctly. He hates mostly every minute of it, but it is so good for him, that I am not going to stop her! :)

What pain really feels like

I thought I knew what pain was. I remember how nervous I was the morning we went to Vanderbilt to have Christian. I was so scared because I knew what could happen. I knew what the doctors had said. I knew that it was going to be hard. When Christian was born at 9:32am, I was so happy. I was ...

Team Christian Block Party and Car Show

Some wonderful friends of mine got an idea one day that they wanted to help me and Chris ou and raise some money for us, so they came up with the idea of a car show in Woodbury. After they got the square reserved for the day, everything started coming together. They decided to have t-shirts made to sell, and ...

Going Home: Our NICU Experience

March 15, 2011 was a fantastic day. I was finally getting to take Christian home from the Vanderbilt NICU. But to get to that point was grueling, exhausting, and heart breaking. To describe briefly the experience of having a child in a NICU, it's like watching someone you love be imprisoned. You know that them being there is what's best ...

A Letter To My Baby

On July 12, 2010, I was watching Dateline and it showed a story of a man who had a disable son. His son was in his thirites now and was confined to a wheelchair for his whole life. He was also unable to talk. The father and his son ran marathons, the father pushing his son in his wheelchair. The ...

Joy in Tribulation

During my pregnancy, although we knew about Christian's condition and were absolutely devastated about it, we still managed to smile. We still found reasons to be happy. I remember laughing at Christian because he would squirm and kick and move around inside me, and when I would yell for Chris to come feel him move, and Chris would come running ...
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