Tom McMahon: What I Have Learned In 15 Years

Fifteen years ago, Tom McMahon's son suffered a severe brain injury that left him unable to walk, talk, or feed himself. Mr. McMahon's learned a thing or two in fifteen years of caring for his son. The lessons might surprise you.

(Or not. I suspect those of my readers who live with disability know much of this already. But he puts it so well.)

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that his post would be good to print out and put in the hands of teens and twenty-somethings -- for that matter anyone who is still cheerfully assuming his life will go the way he plans it to, or anyone who thinks happiness depends on circumstances.

hat tip: GM Roper