There will always be a fight!

There are some days when you wonder if you should just give up the fight.

You sit back and realize, there will always be a fight, there will never be a day when my children will be totally treated as equal human beings.

But I have to keep fighting, each and every day, because a little boy depends on me. He depends on me not only for his total care and medical care, but his happiness, and his equality.

When we moved to Corona, we noticed that there is a park on every corner. It is very family oriented. We loved that immediately. What we didn't love, however, is that not a single park has a handicap swing.

Jaxson loves to swing, but he can not swing on a typical park swing like his little sister can.

There is just no way around it. No way to rig it to fit him. Jaxson has zero neck and zero trunk control. He needs a swing that will support his whole body.

At Carters opening ceremonies for baseball, Ray bumped into a city council member. A city council member that happened to be over the parks!

What a stroke of luck. He asked the member why no park has a handicap swing. Of course he had no idea. He got all of Ray's info, and asked him to send a picture of the swing. They talked back and forth. The member was fantastic, he stuck to his word, said they were looking up prices, and asked which park would be best to put it.

And then, of course, the ball dropped.

He emailed Ray and said that they were going to table the idea for now. That they were worried about vandalism, and wanted us to find other people that would benefit from the swing.

The only reason I can think of this swing having more vandalism, is because it has a seatbelt. In Utah, they keep the seat belts at city hall. You can either buy one, or rent one for the day. It works out great. I don't need a seat belt for Jax, he isn't going to jump out of the swing, but I'm sure other people will.

I'm very upset, sometimes I feel the only way it will work is if we buy a swing for our own backyard. I'm not even sure if it will fit on a typical swing set. But my son deserves a swing. He has a right to have fun just as any other kid does!

So for that reason, we keep fighting. We will stay on the city until at least one park has a handicap swing. We will start our search for other families in our city that have children that would benefit from a handicap swing.

We will prevail, we have to! Our children depend on us!