by Real Imprints | Sep 16, 2020 | Stories
I decided to donate my wedding dress to The Angel Gowns Project, by Real Imprints, a few years after losing my daughter, Grace. My daughter was born sleeping at twenty-two weeks. I did not anticipate any problems with my pregnancy; therefore, I was in total shock and...
by Real Imprints | Mar 3, 2020 | Faith, Stories
My wife Blanca and I were in our clinic attending to patients on April 18th, 2018 when the news began presenting a demonstration by the elderly protesting their right to their social security. A few hours after the protest began the government in Nicaragua began...
by Real Imprints | Oct 16, 2019 | Family, Stories
A melancholy permeated and hung heavy in every inch of our room. It had been just over a month since our 10-year-old daughter Chase Savanna was diagnosed with brain cancer, but sitting there in the small room at the Ronald McDonald House, our life before diagnosis...
by Real Imprints | Oct 9, 2019 | Special Needs, Stories
When my wife Stacy came to me saying she felt God speak to her about adopting a child with Down syndrome, I thought there was absolutely no way. Based on everything I’d always heard, I just didn’t think we could manage this particular special need with our busy...
by Real Imprints | Sep 25, 2019 | Family, Stories
It was just another day in a long row of days without my son, Caden. I woke up feeling completely exhausted, enough so that I actually laid on the couch to say goodbye to my kids as they left for school. Everything was hard. My anxiety became too much, so I walked and...
by Cheryl Roper | Sep 19, 2019 | Mental Health, Stories
I remember telling my husband, Blake, that I’d finally accepted that he and the kids would not be better off dealing with the trauma of my death than living with my depression. I was trying to hold on despite nearly constant suicidal thoughts. I was in so much...
