Journey of a Lifetime

There is a story in today's Toronto Star about a local blogger named Natalia.

Here are some excerpts from the article ...

Natalia Ritchie is unlike most new mothers. Yes, she has dreams and goals for her 3-month-old daughter, Scarlett, but Ritchie, 30, has cystic fibrosis. She has always known she won't live to see most of those dreams for her child fulfilled.

Without a double lung transplant soon, she won't live at all.

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Natalia Ritchie is utterly pragmatic about illness and death. Even if she gets new lungs, she will be dead before her daughter is in her 20s.

One goal of the blog is to help Scarlett understand why her mortally ill mother would go ahead and have a child.

"We have to have that information and prepare her," Ritchie says, "to make sure she knows how she got here, how badly we wanted her and how much we love her.

"She'll be able to say she had the best Mom in the world and it all didn't matter – the fact that it had to happen the way it did."

Click here to read the entire article.

Her blog is called Journey of a Lifetime and you can check it out here.