“Strength is More than Muscle”: A Mother Reflects on a Year of Grief and Growth After Son’s DMD Diagnosis
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One year ago, if you would have asked me to say the words Duchenne muscular dystrophy, I couldn’t. It was too new, too fresh, too difficult of a reality to process. One year ago I fell to my knees crying and physically shaking with fear, anxiety and anger as I hung up the phone with . . .