jillio

Sure. I thought I had a hearing child, and discovered that I had a deaf child. I don't think it was so much grieving because he was deaf, but grieving for the picture I had in my head of what his life would be like. It was based on him being hearing, and I simply had to revise my picture a bit when I found out he was deaf. But working through all of that, I also had to realize that I hadn't lost anything to grieve over....I had always had a deaf child. I just didn't know it. The only thing that changed was me learning the truth of the situation.