Children ask questions adults spend entire lifetimes avoiding.
That’s one thing Jessica learned quickly raising Elijah.
Kids notice everything.
Especially children who grow up around hospitals, wheelchairs, scars, medications, and recovery.
At first, when Elijah was very little, his questions were simple.
“Why doesn’t your leg work?”
“Why do you go to the hospital?”
“What’s that scar from?”
Questions asked with pure curiosity.
No judgment.
No fear.
Just a child trying to understand the world and the person he loved most inside it.
Jessica always tried answering honestly without making life sound terrifying.
That balance became important to her.
She never wanted Elijah growing up scared of bodies, illness, injury, or trauma.
But she also didn’t want to lie.
So she explained
