"It's just, you felt it in your heart. We knew, as soon as I saw her. I knew, in my spirit, 'Go get your daughter,'" Tami Wetmore said. "That's exactly what I felt is, 'Go get your daughter.'"
Juliana Wetmore |
6 years later, she's happy, loved, and safe with her family.
"She's quirky. Extremely inquisitive. Very artistic," Thom Wetmore said. "She loves drawing, painting, expressing herself."
At this point, perhaps you're wondering what would inspired a family to open their hearts to a girl with serious medical concerns from the other side of the world.
The answer is their daughter, Juliana. She was born into the family 6 years before Danica showed up.
She, too, has Treacher-Collins syndrome, but a much more severe case. Along with deafness, she was born without 40 percent of the bones in her face.
"You forget that there's anything different about her after she's sitting there for five minutes," Thom said.Juliana has endured 45 surgeries for her face, but her body and her brain have always been perfectly healthy.
Her spirit is always bright.
"Pure love. She loves everybody. She doesn't judge anybody. She doesn't see anybody as different," Thom said. "She just takes everybody as the same."
"My favorite thing to do is watch movies. Watch TV. Play on the computer. Play with my sisters," Juliana said, talking like a typical 12-year-old.
"Whatever you first think of somebody when you see them on the outside, that's not what they are on the inside," Thom said.Juliana on the inside is a girl whose strength inspired her parents to find room in their hearts for Danica, to understand the challenges ahead better than most.
"Danica had been in an orphanage for six-and-a-half years and no one had visited her," Tami said. "Nobody had ever inquired about her."
"We were the first and only ones," Thom added.And the Wetmores' love didn't stop with Danica. After her, they still had more room in their hearts to adopt three siblings who desperately needed a home.
"It's just amazing how your daughter that you look at as just a normal, everyday child that looks a little bit different has changed so many lives," Thom said. "Because you realize it's OK to be who you are."
Nothing, it seems, comes easier to Juliana than that.
The Wetmores live in Tyler, Texas.
Source: USA Today
42 comments:
Living a purposeful life
Subuhannallah!
Hmm some medical conditions send cold shivers down my fragile spine mehn! Choi...
Aaaaw
God bless you baby
Na wa ooo if na here dem go cal d children ogbanje or smth else dy will throw dem in d bush tnk God dy weren't born here.pele o
Awww! Their stories are so heart rendering.
Feels good to know they're happy and not limited by their rare issue.
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
So kind of the family to adopt her. jacksoninem@gmail.com
So kind of the family to adopt her. jacksoninem@gmail.com
So kind of the family to adopt her. jacksoninem@gmail.com
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Kai... Poor girl, God bless d wetmores . Dis medical condition tho
Eiya. So touching.
If this were to be a Nigerian girl, most of us will probably say tufiakwa! forgive! etc and yet most of us claim that we are christian! Some even frown at couple adopting a child from an orphanage! What this man did is one of the many ways God asked us to show or express his love! its not just by sleeping inside a church 7 days a week, fasting etc. hope this changes our mindset! God bless the Wetmores.
Its a pity. Im glad shez getting all the support and love.
Thats nice
it is well
God bless them.
Hmmm
Eeeeeeeeeyah! How touching. It is well with her. Linda take note!
Eeeeeeeeeyah! How touching. It is well with her. Linda take note!
Eeeeeeeeeyah! How touching. It is well with her. Linda take note!
Ouch!....it's well though
This pure love...thanks 4 showing her love
God bless their beautiful hearts. How many of us van love a perfectly normal human being not to talk of loving a seriously abnormal being. I bet these people don't even go to church. Na only God know who de truly serve am.
Awww a heartfelt story
it is well god is in control
i rili rili feel for her i swear
Awwwwwwwwww
we need more of these show of love and affection in this world that is full of wickedness and perversion.
Bless уᵒᵘʳ heart δeα̲̅я̲̅!
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She's such a beauty...
This is the love God asked us to show. These days instead of being your brothers keeper, all we know is ourselves!
Allahu Akbar!
Gracious God
Juliana's face really scared the shit outta me...Sweet Lord! Is that for real??
Thnk u! A purposeful life! #spreadingLove
Thank you! Its not about who can condemn the loudest but who can love the most. Our churches are too busy being focused on casting out demons they don't have time to help heal the world so the demons have no place to fester or grow
oooh! Cant hold on to my tears. This is Love. A gr8 one at that.
May the Lord strengthen them with gr8ter love.
God bless you!
GOD WILL SHOW YOU LOVE ALSO
CHOI!!!! GRACIOUS GOD, OMNIPOTENT JEHOVAH, PLEASE BE THEIR LORD, LOVE AND FATHER
THAT IS NOT TRUE. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO TAKE CARE OF SUCH CHILDREN IN NIGERIA. NA WE DEY USE OUR OWN MOUTH SPOIL OUR COUNTRY WITH SUCH HASITY GENERALISATION.
May God Bless The Wetmore
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