Mary Greene's Page

I'm not a published author yet, but I'm hoping to be soon. Please visit my blog and leave some feedback. Start from the bottom and scroll up. Thanks!

http://whenrainhurts.wordpress.com

Here's a little blurb about the project:

When Rain Hurts is the story of how our Russian adopted son Peter came into our lives, the series of events that led us there, and my successful journey toward loving him, while accepting and adjusting to the fact that I can’t substantially heal him. Peter suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Mild Autism, Seizures, BiPolar Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder and suspected Mitochondrial Disease. He is also, on most days, our beautiful and loving boy.

I undertook this project because I felt demoralized after reading the plethora of adoption- and autism-related books on the market. Most if not all portray a family who struggles with their child’s difficulty at first, but who ultimately learn to embrace the problem and become enriched because of it. Reading these accounts made me feel inadequate, as a mother and as a human being. I love my child, fiercely in fact, but hate the disabilities that plague his future and pepper our daily lives with genuine chaos. I want my child to be whole. This project seeks to explore these feelings. Adoption isn’t always easy and adopting an alcohol exposed child carries with it inherent booby traps that simply cannot be overcome by love, faith, medication or any other kind of intervention. I know because I’ve tried.