Introduction

As we have just reached the anniversary of Noah's birth, I intend to write a summary of the last year, and continue from there writing my thoughts and experiences of having a son with brain damage

My motivation for doing this is twofold:

• to record my thoughts as they occur so I don't forget them
• to provide a record for other parents who are going through, or have been through, the same thing

I did discover that there aren't that many 'real' accounts of parents' experiences of having a disabled child and going through the trauma of having them brain damaged at birth. This is my attempt to remedy that situation