With the rather pleasant influx of new families to our own international
family, I was thinking it may be a good idea for some of the regulars to
re-introduce themselves and their angels every now and then.

I'll start :) :) :)

My name is Marc Bissonnette, living here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

I've been blessed, touched and drooled on by my angel Liam, 22 months old,
who was diagnosed approximately eight months ago as having a definite
deletion on chromo 15.

Liam has a three year old sister that he absolutely *adores* and tends to
blind the room with his smile when she comes near him.

Developmentally, Liam is approximately at the six month stage for gross
motor skills and nine months for fine motor.

He's had a GJ tube since diagnosis, which was recently pulled back to a
G-tube (Almost out, little guy, keep practicing drinking from a sippy-cup!)

Liam has taught me more about myself, the handicapped and how others react
to them than I could ever sum up in a single email. Would I change a single
thing about being blessed by an angel? Not on your life!

There's rough times (really, really, REALLY rough times, some times), but
at the end of the day, when I put him in his crib and get him set up on the
pump, that smile and laugh (he laughs like "GHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GHEEEEEEEEEEE
GHEEEEEEEEE" makes it all worth it :)

I've also met, through this list, some people that I can only hope to be as
good a human being as they have so far achieved, in my life time.

To all the new people: Welcome! (Actually, a big Canadian Welcome, since I
try to sneak Canadian references in, wherever I can, as I'm sure some will
attest :)
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Marc Bissonnette
InternAlysis
Intelligence In Internet Communications
http://www.internalysis.com