The following is an excerpt from my book, THE QUESTION OF DAVID: A Disabled Mother's Journey Through Adoption, Family, and Life, published in 1999 and available on Amazon.com.

 Neil began waking David up in the morning about a year and a half ago. I gladly  relinquished the responsibility, deciding that I had pulled out enough of my hair in the  morning waking up my then third-grader and trying to hustle him out the door by 8:30.