Each week, we like to feature our BlogFrog users and share their incredible stories. This week, we are honored to feature Holly, author of Caring for Carleigh. Holly’s journey has not been an easy one. Her daughter Carleigh was diagnosed with the fatal disorder, Anencephaly, while in the womb. We are so grateful she has been willing to open her heart and share her story so she can help other families like hers.
I started blogging January 5, 2009. My original intent was to have a central place to keep family and friends updated on my pregnancy with my daughter Carleigh instead of posting on several websites and sending out lots of emails. On December 15, 2008, we found out our daughter had a fatal prenatal condition called anencephaly. There was no chance our daughter would live as this condition is always fatal.
As I blogged our updates, I saw that I could use my blog to document my journey with my daughter and help other families in the process. Reading the journeys of families like mine really helped me so I wanted to do the same. Now I blog about my grief journey and I also post other things on this road I continue to travel. BlogFrog has helped me expand my daughter’s blog and reach out to more people, and for that I am thankful! Just one more way that I can help others.
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Dear Holly,
I finally found a way to reach you. You see I am not at all comupter savvy and for some reason, the link you sent on caring bridge would not connect me to your site. So, I gave up.
Then my friend Trish Dodge (I think you may know her from another online mom’s group for due dates last year), posted today that she had wanted to put me in touch with you but didn’t know how, thinking instead it would be awkard. So, when she saw you posted on my site yesterday, she told me to get in touch.
So, I am trying to get in touch.
Steven and I are both born and raised in Ohio. I am from Toledo and Steven is from Cincinnati. Just thinking it would be funny if we had some other connection besides our children.
Stephanie
sdyer37@gmail.com