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Missing my Daughter: Reflections from a Disabled Dad During the Coronavirus

March 21, 2020 by Chris Wylie 3 Comments

Father and daughter balancing spoons on their noses

My thirteen-year-old daughter is sick. 

Cough, fever, and the rest. By now we all know the symptoms. 

COVID- 19? Who knows? There are no testing kits. 

What I do know is that I have to be especially careful as a high-risk person with cerebral palsy, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. So, I assume it’s everywhere – including in my daughter. 

I never thought I’d see the day. 

I have no problem isolating myself from others. Sure, I’m a nearly off the charts extrovert but I’m doing what I have to do. 

Being separated from my daughter, however, I wasn’t prepared for that. How do you go on without your heart? 

And, I’m lucky I suppose. If you can call it that. You see, like many parents, I share custody of my daughter and, even though this is not ideal in itself, I am fortunate to co-parent with her mom who has been understanding of our extraordinary times. 

So, here I am. I’m missing my daughter and I must say, “FaceTime is good but it’s not the same.” 

As a disabled parent, I have fought hard to keep my daughter in my life as much as she is. I don’t want to lose that. 

However, this is life and death, and I’m high risk even after she seems recovered. Moreover, with our systemic breakdowns in all this, who knows what any of us will be exposed to whenever we encounter others. We are in this for the long haul. 

There is one thing we can do though. It’s not easy but it is simple. Stay home. 

As much as you can, limit your contact with others. It is going to take all of us doing what we can to lessen the impacts.

Remember, you might be ok, but you are showing others love by doing your part.

Just as I love my daughter whom I miss dearly. 

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Filed Under: Disabled Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, covid19, daughter, disabled dad, sick

Chris Wylie

About Chris Wylie

Rev. Christopher Wylie is an ordained United Methodist Elder serving and living outside of Buffalo, NY. In addition to his day to day local church duties, he is an active advocate for the full inclusion of people living with disabilities, having served as past chair of the Disability Concerns Team along with many other current and former roles within the Upper New York Conference of the United Methodist Church. As a person living with cerebral palsy, he is passionate about the radical inclusion of all people no matter the bodies in which they live.

More posts can be read on his blog, crippastor.wordpress.com, where he writes primarily about matters of faith, disability, and often the intersection between the two.

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  1. AvatarBonnie says

    March 22, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    Love to you Chris and prayers for your precious daughter and you in these trying times!

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    • ChrisChris says

      March 24, 2020 at 12:47 pm

      Thanks, Bonnie!

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