Empathy...
If there is one thing I have gained in losing my Eli, that is it. When I read the story of another baby diagnosed or taken by SMA, I cry like I have lost another child. Why? I think it is because I know how those families are going to be feeling. I know what it is like to have a silent house. I know how it feels to have a beautiful nursery, so lovingly decorated, sit empty. I would gladly add to my own pain to stop anyone else from EVER having to experience it. I am already broken so more pain....well, it can't really do much more to me right now. I'd gladly bear it.