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she is about 9 months mentally, and is naturally small, without a uterus.
This has made it so much easier to care for her, and since we expect to do so into our 70's and maybe 80's, that is a blessing. People don't realize that the connection between parent and child is so strong that if my daughter were to be moved to another place to be cared for because she was too big and heavy to manage, she would probably go into a severe decline and be completely unconsolable at the loss of her family and environment. It would be the equivalent of putting a normal child into a mental institution at the age of 3 or 4. Very cruel in itself. The surgery seems a very small cruelty compared to that.
There are many parents like us who are torn by the choices we must make when we are too old to care for our children, and society does not provide many good choices for us. Anything that delays or removes that horrible day is okay by me and if you think about it, Ashley herself would probably approve too.
