A young girl with severe physical disabilities brings her family much in the way of joy and hope, and she teaches other people how to be accepting and compassionate towards people such as herself.
She doesn't look like much: a young girl with black hair done up in two fat pigtails and has a pair of the biggest, darkest eyes ever found; but she is more than what her appearances show. She is in a wheelchair and is spastic in all four limbs due to severe cerebral palsy; but her face shows much joy and love for her life and for her family, which consisted of her parents and four older brothers. She was the youngest child in her family, and the only girl.
Born four months too early, little Cassia Miracle Joy Adamson is now five years old, and she was born weighing just 12 ounces, as much as a can of soda pop. She was impossibly tiny, but even then, she showed an incredible will to survive; and she somehow weathered numerous medical crises and surpassed all doubts placed onto her by doctors who didn't think she had a chance.
She grew up to be a now beautiful African-American child who had a will to survive; and she refused to let her disabilities hamper her life. She smiled and laughed often, and there was nothing more she enjoyed than to be with her family or her many friends at school or at church. She loved being around people, and she knew how to wrap them around her tiny little finger. She was a charmer with an exhuberant personality, and many people were enamored with her upbeat attitude and her outlook on things.
If anything, Cassie was born to teach other people compassion and acceptance of the severely disabled; and to show them that they were people too, and they were more than their outward disabilities. She was the 2003 Young Ambassador for the local Chapter of the Easter Seals Organization in Dallas, Texas. She had met many famous people through her involvement with Easter Seals, and she loved the attention it brought to her. She was a very happy little girl, and life for her was very good indeed.
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Reviewed by Celia Reed
3/17/2003
I was a preemie too at 1 pound 13 oz. in 1952. I enjoyed this story and it reminds me of our precious angel Ta'Bria with SMA Type one who is still here and is 8 years old. For an incredible journey of her family, please visit www.tabriaswebspiration.homestead.com
this is a very hopeful story, and written with the love and compassion only you can offer, and yes I'd love to add Ronee's story to my book.
God bless
~Michelle~
very hopeful, indeed...we are all alive for a reason. we should know...we we both very premature, ourselves...you weighed 1.5 pounds, me, not much bigger at 2...and we're still here, nearly 44 years later, thanks be to God...thank you for the reminder...excellent write! (((HUGS))) and love, karla. :)
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