I have two amazingly beautiful daughters.  One is twenty-five, married, soon to be an elementary school teacher, my other daughter is twenty-three and has gone through more pain in her life than anyone I know.

When my youngest daughter was ten she was struck with one of the most painful disease known to man.  Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.  For the past thirteen years Megan has fought this monster.  For the first four years she could not walk and was bedridden.  She went through countless hours of physio-therapy and being treated by the pain team at B.C. Children's Hospital.  I remember at one point I would sit on her bedroom floor and get her on the stationary bicycle and manually turn the pedals around and around for her as she had no strength in her legs and the pain was horrendous.  She went from a wheelchair to crutches to knee braces.  For the first two years Megan averaged an hour or two of sleep at night as the pain was vicious and unrelenting.  School was next too impossible.  She average maybe a total of attending twenty days per school year from grade five until graduation.  At the time she became ill home schooling options were not that great so I learned to teach her very quickly.  Thankfully she was able to get a homebound teacher for the high school years.   Amazingly one of  the worst parts of all of this was how her friends deserted her.  I will never understand that part and it made me angry for a lot of years but I see my daughter now and know through all of this journey with our faith in God, the love and help from my parents and her determination and strength she has become the strongest person I know.  Megan still lives a life of pain but is strong, kind and lives her to life to the best of her abilities.