Introducing our son Luke Buckley. Luke is three and loves sports, tractors, animals and mostly other children. We have been blessed with such an adventure as we share Luke's life with him.

Luke was born to a great life giving mommy that was too young to accept the role of mommy and wanted Luke to live and be loved and share his love with others.

We were so pleased when we were asked to be Luke's family and so was everyone around us. We were at the hospital when Luke was born and we were there when the entire goodbye's had to be said as well. Although allot of difficult decisions were made we knew that no matter what we would love Luke.

On day three we were handed our discharge papers from the hospital and we took our son home. We enjoyed looking at every little movement although there were not many and we loved starring at him as he slept.

Luke started to show us signs that something was unexpected as soon as we got him home. We enjoyed him and took him the doctor many times in search of the questions that were coming very quickly. Luke slept more than normal and did not cry when he was hungry as well as very little movement.

After two weeks at home he had a health crisis and was flown by helicopter to Children's hospital in Seattle, WA. Luke spent three weeks in ICU and was on a ventilator to help him breath. We were told that maybe we should rethink our adoption plans as Luke maybe a boy in the corner that just sat in a wheelchair. My husband and I looked at each other and said to the doctor” This is our son and we are going to love him and help him reach his full potential ". We called our lawyer right away and requested that Luke's adoption be completed as soon as possible in case he were to pass away as the doctor also told us could happen .  

Luke's adopting was done on a judge’s birthday and at Children's hospital. Luke had tears of joy throughout the hospital as other families and the nursing staff could hear the adoption process. We were overjoyed and knew that this journey was something that we were going to need allot of help on.

We spent three months at Children's hospital while Luke improved and even started to eat on his own. We came home fearful that we would miss something and he would become sick again or that we needed to get the right services for Luke and what were they? Our journey started and we were in the BIG world of mostly functioning children and people who had no idea what to tell us.

We learned that we could find other parents and people that could help with ideas and support.  We started spending time in search for ideas on the computer. This is where our networking started to become our net and was helping move us forward in our search to help our son.

In our search we were found by Steve Gay the founder of the Special Child Exchange yahoo group. He welcomed us and told us about his site as well as other resources that we should look into. This site has been a great place to talk to other Mom's as well as trade or buy special equipment that Luke needs. This equipment is really expensive as it is "medical needs" so you can imagine how expensive it can be. 

I want to thank each parent, grandparent, brother, sister and friend that is on the site as they have helped us keep our days bright and sunny.  Luke needs a world that will include him and accept his differences and embrace his kind, loving, joyful spirit. It is our hope that when you read this your heart will be changed to know that what you see a person doing weather it is a strange body movement they cannot control or the lack of movement that you see the heart they hold, the light shinning from their eyes and know that they have allot to teach and allot to offer ....If we will only slow down long enough to listen and to learn.